Cronus & Rhea (Titan Gods)
•Cronus:
Titan god of Time
•Rhea:
Titan goddess of Female Fertility, Motherhood, & Generation
•Parents:
Uranus & Gaea
•Roman names:
*Cronus-Saturn
*Rhea-Ops
Children:
Zeus, Hestia, Hades, Demeter, Hera, & Poseidon
Titan god of Time
•Rhea:
Titan goddess of Female Fertility, Motherhood, & Generation
•Parents:
Uranus & Gaea
•Roman names:
*Cronus-Saturn
*Rhea-Ops
Children:
Zeus, Hestia, Hades, Demeter, Hera, & Poseidon
Cronus' Demise
Cronus ruled the cosmos during the so-called Golden Age, after castrating and deposing his father Uranus (the Sky). In fear of a prophecy that he would be in turn be overthrown by his own son, Cronus swallowed each of his children as soon as they were born. Rhea managed to save the youngest, Zeus, by hiding him away on the island of Crete, and fed Cronus a stone wrapped in the swaddling clothes of an infant. The god grew up, forced Cronus to disgorge his swallowed offspring, and led the Olympians in a ten year war against the Titans, before driving them defeated into the pit of Tartaros.
Many human generations later, Zeus released Cronus and his brothers from this prison, and made the old Titan king of the Elysian Islands, home of the blessed dead. Cronus was essentially the same as Khronos, the primordial god of Time in the Orphic Theogonies.
Many human generations later, Zeus released Cronus and his brothers from this prison, and made the old Titan king of the Elysian Islands, home of the blessed dead. Cronus was essentially the same as Khronos, the primordial god of Time in the Orphic Theogonies.