Some versions of the story have Zeus raised by a goat named Amalthea or the nymph Adamanthea on Mount Ida. Rhea, his sister and wife, managed to save the youngest, Zeus, by hiding him away on the island of Crete and feeding Cronus a stone swaddled in cloth. Philyra in shame retreated to the Pelasgian ridges where she gave birth to Chiron, the wise and half divine centaur.Ī prophecy, predicted by Uranus, decreed Cronus would be overthrown by his son, to prevent this from occurring Cronus swallowed each of his children Demeter, Hestia, Hera, Hades and Poseidon, as they were born. Cronus had many famous children, one of them was born through his infidelity with Philyra, daughter of Oceanus, when upon being found out by his wife Rhea, Cronus leapt out of bed and galloped off in the form of a stallion. He and his sister Rhea took the throne as King and Queen and ruled during a Golden Age, as the people of the time had no need for laws and immorality were absent. The blood that fell into the sea created white foam from which the goddess Aphrodite emerged.Īfter dispatching Uranus, Cronus once again incarcerated his youngest siblings, the Hecatonchires and the Cyclopes and commanded the dragon Campe to guard them.
Only Cronus was willing to commit the act, and when it was all over the blood that fell onto the Earth from Uranus created the Gigantes, Erinyes and Meliae. Gaia created a great stone sickle and persuaded Cronus and his Titan brothers to castrate Uranus. Uranus angered Gaia when he hid her children, the Hecatonchires and the Cyclopes in Tartarus, and they were imprisoned unable to see the light. Hesiod in his Theogony recorded this saga Cronus envied the power of his father, the ruler of the universe. With the help of his Titan brothers, Cronus was able to depose his father Uranus and rule the cosmos, ruling during the mythological Golden Age. In Greek mythology, Cronus was the primordial God of time, in which time was described as a destructive, all-devouring force.
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