Like father like son

Rhea grieved terribly for her lost children. Before Zeus was born she begged Heaven and me to keep him safe. Heaven jumped at the opportunity to get Kronos back and I had another chance to make things change once again.

Rhea went to Lyktos (it was the biggest city in ancient Crete) to give birth to Zeus in private and then she gave him to me. She put him in a secret cave in the Aegean mountain so I could take care of him and he could be reared safely in Crete. She then gave Kronos a rock wrapped in babycloth to eat and he didn’t even notice. I guess that just goes to show how little he cared for his baby gods. He couldn't tell them apart from a rock.

If you are unfamiliar with Greek geography the Aegean mountains were a mountain range that went under the sea. Some of the mountains were large enough to become islands of their own and Crete is one of the largest of these islands.

 

Land is one of the slower-changing elements of our world, but even so maps have changed drastically in a few thousand years. Knowledge shapes your view of the world as much as the actual, physical rocks do. But then, the land also shapes your knowledge. How do you know what's on the other side of the mountain if you have no way of getting there? How do you know that you'll discover new land if that part of the ocean is completely unexplored? And why do you think that you'll find something interesting if you go somewhere new?

 

I understand hope and I feel it myself... but why do you waste such short mortal lives on "maybe finding something"?

 

Earth.