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Zeus

Zeus

Zeus

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xrpl320
xrpl320 5 mo 13 d
Zeus
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Zeus should scale very high, possibly even Low Outer, coupled with Nigh-Omnipotence.

In Hesiod's Titanomachy, when Zeus fights Cronus, things like these happen:

καῦμα δὲ θεσπέσιον κάτεχεν χάος· εἴσατο δ' ἄντα
ὀφθαλμοῖσιν ἰδεῖν ἠδ' οὔασιν ὄσσαν ἀκοῦσαι
αὔτως, ὡς ὅτε γαῖα καὶ οὐρανὸς εὐρὺς ὕπερθε
πίλνατο· τοῖος γάρ κε μέγας ὑπὸ δοῦπος ὀρώρει,
τῆς μὲν ἐρειπομένης, τοῦ δ' ὑψόθεν ἐξεριπόντος·

which roughly translates to:

Heat and embers engulfed the entire Chaos,

and one could see with eyes and hear with one's ears

the bluster of earth and heaven crumbling and falling ...


You get the idea. Chaos is the primordial concept of empty space / Nothingness itself, so being able to set even something like that ablaze (with heat and embers) could scale Zeus to Low 1-A.

If it were "only" the part about the crumbling of Heaven & Earth, ok, then Low 2-C / 2-C would be good enough to scale Zeus, but it's the interaction with Chaos which could be Low 1-A.

Self-evidently, Zeus is also at least Nigh-Omnipotent,considering he controls and commands all other Gods (no matter what their specialty may be).
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yes
yes 5 mo 13 d
Zeus
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The only beings in Greek myth that are nigh omnipotent are nyx and chaos, Greek myth also doesn’t have a proper multiverse so how are they outer ?
xrpl320
xrpl320 5 mo 13 d
Zeus
50 months member
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@yes
depending on the author, Chaos is one of the only few primordial beings who has Acausality (== no other cause preceeds it), at least according to Hesiod.

But according to Homer, that same role of being the acausal "source of all" was given to Okeanos, who is "only" a (primordial, but not acausal <- because he was born from Gaia) Titan in Hesiod's story.

But the important thing to rremember is that eventually Zeus inherited the supreme power to control ALL other beings, gods, entities, so even when Zeus himself is not 100% acausal (he also had a preceeding cause = his father Cronus and Mother Rhea), he is still Nigh-Omnipotent.
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