The myth, as it's usually told
Zeus
Kronos swallowed each of his children as they were born, because a prophecy said one of them would overthrow him. Rhea hid the last, Zeus, on Crete and handed Kronos a stone wrapped in swaddling cloth instead. Zeus grew up, forced his father to vomit up his siblings, and led them in a ten-year war against the Titans that ended with Zeus ruling the sky.
What the song hears
The reframe
Not a statue on a mountain. A son who overthrew his father, and a king who learned to rule by the same violence.
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