The same western historian writes: Like many other nations the Greeks used to elevate the lightning in the clouds, the ocean, the storms, rivers, springs, breeze and rain to a divine status and worshipped them.
They used to attribute every unseen power to the invisible entities and believed them to be the owners of the good and bad so that they were benign to them and kept their bad effects away from them. “
He then mentions Zeus the son of kronos who was the great god of the Greeks. They described him as a powerfully built giant of man with long and curly hair and broad forehead. Zeus in Greece was regarded as the chief god and the god of evil who was surrounded by the idols of the lesser gods. His wife “Hira” lived in the heavens and had three sons, Hermes, Artemis and Ayolon and they were the gods of rain, moon and sun respectively. There were others gods too on whom they believed like the god for the river, god for the land, the god of the underworld and other gods for every separate work.(1)