Zeus Zeus Zeus (; , "Zeús" ) is the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion, who rules as king of the gods of Mount Olympus. His name is cognate with the first element of his Roman equivalent Jupiter. His mythologies and powers are similar, though not identical, to those of Indo-European deities such as Indra, Jupiter, Perkūnas, Perun, Thor, and Odin. Zeus is the child of Cronus and Rhea, the youngest of his siblings to be born, though sometimes reckoned the eldest as the others required disgorging from Cronus's stomach. In most traditions, he is married to Hera, by
Reo (deity) inscription, part of which reads , usually interpreted as "and ("or" thereafter) a fertile(?) bull for Reue" with the epithet lost. "Reue" therefore also seems to be a dative in the Lusitanian form of the name. "Reue" appears again on the Ribeira da Venda inscription, including an epithet, as - this time the deity is receiving a sacrifice of ten sheep. K T Witczak derives the name from earlier "*diewo", suggesting that the Lusitanian language changed the Proto-Indo European "d" to "r", making Reo a sky deity similar to (and having a name cognate with) the Greek Zeus and Roman