According to a prophecy Meti's son would have been more powerful than Zeus, for this reason he decided to swallow his pregnant wife to prevent the birth of their child. Nevertheless the baby continued to grow inside his body, and when Hephaestus gave him a blow with an axe to cure his headache, Athena sprang from Zeus' head, full-grown and in full armour. He was called "the father of gods ", as he had given birth to almost all gods of the Olympus with a large number of goddesses. In Greece, there is a mountain, the Olympus. It is the highest of the peninsula, even if it is not very high. Moreover its top is always covered by storm clouds, with thunderbolts and thunders.
