Jupiter and His Mighty Company

A long time ago, when the world was much younger than it is now, people told and believed a great many wonderful stories about wonderful things which neither you nor I have ever seen. They often talked about a certain Mighty Being called Jupiter, or Zeus, who was king of the sky and the earth. They said that he sat most of the time amid the clouds on the top of a very high mountain where he could look down and see everything that was going on in the earth…

Jupiter had two brothers, both of them terrible fellows, but not nearly so great as himself. The name of one of them was Neptune, or Poseidon. He was the king of the sea. He had a glittering, golden palace far down in the deep sea-caves where the fishes live and the red coral grows. Whenever he was angry, the waves would rise mountain high, the storm-winds would howl fearfully, and the sea would try to break over the land. Men called him the Shaker of the Earth.