What is the story of Zeus eating his wife?

Answer 1

Zeus met a beautiful women named Metis who stole his heart. The last year they were together Metis was pregnant with a baby boy but Zeus was worried that the new baby would take over the throne so one night Zeus ate Metis up with her baby inside. Nine months later Zeus was having massive headaches and didn't know what was happening so one of the servants took an axe and cut open his head there was Metis and the new born baby in the hands. It was a miracle

The above is mostly correct, except that no one was sure if the child was male or female until after it was born. Incidentally, it was female--Athena. Zeus ate Metis because of a prophecy that Gaia made, that Metis' child would be more powerful than Zeus. It was not a servant who cut open Zeus' head, but his son Hephaestus. Metis remained in Zeus' head, advising him, since she was the goddess of wisdom.