Ultimately, all gods evolve from the spirits worshipped in animism. In many cases, the gods and goddesses were absorbed from other cultures, mostly in the Archaic period. The storm god, Zeus is...
He wasn't a god he was the king of crete I'm not totally sure but his name may have to do with the prefix in the word Minotaur, the beast that lived in the gigantic maze (labyrinth) he had built...