Zeus been hidden by Gaia. Together, Zeus, his brothers and sisters, Hecatonchires and Cyclopes overthrew Cronus and the other Titans, in the combat called the Titanomachy. The defeated Titans were then cast into a shadowy underworld region known as Tartarus. Atlas, one of the titans who fought against Zeus, was punished by having to hold up the sky. After the battle with the Titans, Zeus shared the world with his elder brothers, Poseidon and Hades, by drawing lots: Zeus got the sky and air, Poseidon the waters, and Hades the world of the dead (the underworld). The ancient Earth, Gaia, could
Two Brothers (ship) pleaded with him and they clung to small boats through the night. The next morning, they were rescued by "Martha". Thomas Nickerson, who served as boatsteerer on "Two Brothers", wrote about the wreck. Nickerson had also served with Pollard on the "Essex" and survived its sinking. Nickerson's account is preserved in a manuscript titled "Loss of the Ship "Two Brothers" of Nantucket" (MS 106 F3.5) in the collections of the Nantucket Historical Association. The wreck of "Two Brothers" was discovered in 2008 by a team of marine archaeologists working on an expedition for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).