エピメニデスの断片によると、ニンフのヘリケとキノスーラは幼いゼウスの養母であったという。クロノスはゼウスを捜すためにクレタ島へ行き、ゼウスは自分の存在を隠すために、自分を蛇に、二人の看護婦を熊に変身させた<ref>Hard 2004, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA75 p. 75–6]; Gantz, p. 42; Epimenides [https://archive.org/details/diefragmenteder02diel/page/192/mode/2up?view=theater fr. 23 Diels, p. 193] [= Scholia on Aratus, 46]. Zeus later marks the event by placing the constellations of the Dragon, the Greater Bear and the Lesser Bear in the sky.</ref>。ムサエイオスによると、ゼウスが生まれた後、レーアーはテミスにゼウスを渡したという。テミスはゼウスをアマルティアに預けるが、アマルティアは雌山羊を飼っていて、幼いゼウスを養育した<ref>Gantz, p. 41; Gee, [https://books.google.com/books?id=NPsh5CsJprYC&pg=PA131 p. 131–2]; Frazer, [https://books.google.com/books?id=n6uUBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA120 p. 120]; Musaeus [https://archive.org/details/diefragmenteder02diel/page/180/mode/2up?view=theater fr. 8 Diels, pp. 181–2] [= Eratosthenes, ''Catasterismi'' 13 (Hard 2015, [https://books.google.com/books?id=7IMSBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA44 p. 44]; Olivieri, [https://archive.org/details/mythographigrae00olivgoog/page/n39/mode/2up?view=theater p. 17])]; Musaeus ''apud'' Hyginus, ''De Astronomica'' [https://topostext.org/work/207#2.13.6 2.13.6]. According to Eratosthenes, Musaeus considers the she-goat to be a child of Helios, and to be "so terrifying to behold" that the gods ask for it to be hidden in one of the caves in Crete; hence Earth places it in the care of Amalthea, who nurses Zeus on its milk.</ref>。
アントニウス・リベラリスは『メタモルフォーゼ』の中で、レーアーはクレタ島の神聖な洞窟でゼウスを出産し、そこには神聖な蜂がたくさんいて、その蜂が赤ん坊の乳母となった、と述べている。神も人も立ち入れないこの洞窟から、蜂蜜を盗み出そうとする盗賊団が現れる。 [[Antoninus Liberalis]], in his ''Metamorphoses'', says that Rhea gives birth to Zeus in a sacred cave in Crete, full of sacred bees, which become the nurses of the infant. While the cave is considered forbidden ground for both mortals and gods, a group of thieves seek to steal honey from it. Upon laying eyes on the swaddling clothes of Zeus, their bronze armour "split[s] away from their bodies", and Zeus would have killed them had it not been for the intervention of the [[Moirai]] and [[Themis]]; he instead transforms them into various species of birds.アントニウス・リベラリスは『メタモルフォーゼ』の中で、レーアーはクレタ島の神聖な洞窟でゼウスを出産し、そこには神聖な蜂がたくさんいて、その蜂が赤ん坊の乳母となった、と述べている。神も人も立ち入れないこの洞窟から、蜂蜜を盗み出そうとする盗賊団が現れる。ゼウスの産着に目をつけた彼らの青銅の鎧は「体から裂け」、モイライとテミスの介入がなければゼウスは彼らを殺すところだったが、代わりに彼は彼らを様々な種類の鳥に変身させた<ref>Hard 2004, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA75 p. 75]; [[Antoninus Liberalis]], [https://topostext.org/work/216#19 19].</ref>。
=== Ascension to Power ===