Who is Cronus?

Cronus was the youngest of the Titans, the Greek deities who ruled the world before the arrival of Zeus and the other Olympian gods and goddesses. Cronos’ father Uranus is counted as the first to have ruled the Universe.  Cronus seized power from his father, the sky god Uranus, and was later ousted by his own children. According to legend, Uranus had imprisoned several of his children in the body of his wife, the earth goddess Gaia. To punish him, Gaia asked her son Cronus to cut off Uranus’s sex organs during the night. After carrying out his mother’s wishes, Cronus replaced his father as ruler. He married his sister, Rhea, another Titan, and they began to have children. Learning that one of his offspring was fated to overcome him just as he had overcome his father, Cronus swallowed each baby as it was born. Rhea, however, managed to save their youngest child, Zeus, by feeding Cronus a stone wrapped in infants’ clothing. She then arranged for the baby to be raised in secret.

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