The greatest Gods were known by different names: Marduk of the Babylonians evolves into Zeus of the Greeks, who becomes Jupiter of the Romans.
Zeus ruled all over. He was chief god, and his personal attributes are those we equate with powerful fathers, kings, chief executives, officers of corporations or armies, top-dog alpha males, boss figures.
As chief of the gods, Zeus was required to lose touch with the earth in order to gain an overview; to see the forest but not the trees. The sky was also consciousness, “a perspective that exalts control, reason, and will.” He was King, “a man’s home is his castle”, husband, father (children as extensions of himself), expected his wife to run the household and parenting (while he was minimally involved), protective, generous, and trusting toward many of his sons and daughters (although his generosity was motivated by his desire to control them and was tied to his expectations of them), sought authority and power, risk taker, entrepreneur, focused and single minded (the eagle), alliance maker, philanderer, ambitious, pragmatist (not an idealist), accepted the world as it was and wanted his piece of it, never an intellectual nor introspective, didn’t waste time on other’s feelings or dwelling on the past, “Power is an aphrodisiac”, everyone was expendable to him, but there is no profit in making enemies, the “alpha male” who had his pick of females, women were a “perk”, not a good lover, not passionate and didn’t bother to try to please women.
Persona:
- Ruler of heaven and earth
- Patriarchal symbol of the father
- Represents the force that expands and creates
- Symbol of authority
- Lord of air and sky
- Helper of men
- Dispenses all good things
- Healer of guilt
- Guardian of law and morals
- Personification principle of order and consciousness
- Represents the archetypal essence of the political strategist
- Represents order based on intellectual supremacy
- Embodies the forces of expansion and growth
- Represents the power that binds and restricts
- Represents domination and excess authority
- Represents rigidity
- When defied, becomes an angry and retributive God
- Ruler
- Seducer
- Conqueror
- Judge
- Creator
- Celebrity
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