Gaea created life, but that was life which was reigned by a brute force. There was no prize for honesty, nor punishment for crime. Guided by their natural aspiration towards the order and ordered society wise men created immortal gods, who governed people's lives, seeing and hearing everything, and enforcing the laws. The fear of such mighty gods forced the people to place them as far as possible, but also in a beautiful settings in order to please them. So, the gods were placed at Mount Olympus and organized as a hierarchal society in which the "jet-set" consisted of twelve Olympian gods: Zeus, the supreme god, Hera, his lawful wife, Poseidon, Demeter, Hestia, Aphrodite, Hermes, Athena, Hephaestus, Ares, Artemis and Apollo.
Mount Olympus is placed on the borders of Macedonia and Thessaly. At very early times, Olympus was considered as the heavenly dwelling place, far away from Earth, with Milky Way leading to it. In the central place at Olympus there was Zeus's palace with palaces of other great gods in the vicinity, and palaces of the less important gods further away. The gates of this city of gods were opening in the dawn and closing in the dusk.