Cronus and Rhea
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CRONOS AND REA
Cronos is the youngest of the Titan sons of Uranus and Gaia, and he surpassed them all in art.
of deceit and malice. He is the only one who wanted to help his mother with the revenge plans that
she had against Uranus for having sent the Hecatoncheires, brothers of, to Tartarus
Cronos, monstrous beings arrogant to the point of disobedience. With a scythe, Cronos.
he cut off Uranus's testicles and that's how he was able to dethrone him and proclaim himself lord of
all the things that exist and have existed in the world. With all this power, to his brothers they
forced them to serve as guardians of his throne and the brothers had no choice but to
obey.
When Cronos settled as the supreme god and absolute authority of the world, he took for
wife of the Titaness Rhea, his sister, with whom he had three daughters and three sons: Hestia, Demeter
Dimitra and Hera on the female side; Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus on the male side. Uranus,
probably to take revenge for having been castrated and useless, he prophesied that in turn
he would be dispossessed of the throne by one of his sons. Thus, Cronos became a monarch.
much more despotic than Uranus itself had ever been. In order to neutralize the prediction
of his father, was successively devouring all his children had with his wife as
that was illuminating them. Rea, furious at her husband's behavior, allowed herself to be advised by
her mother Gaia, and when she became pregnant with the last one, she secretly left for Crete and in a
The deep cave of Mount Dichti gave birth to Zeus. It gave Cronos a stone wrapped in
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diapers and this one, without looking, swallowed it thinking he had rid himself of his last one.
sprout. It was not so, and Zeus grew up quietly under the protection of the nymphs Adrastea and
Idea in the cave where she was born, with the Kourites demons as guardians of the cave.
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When Zeus became an adult, he was able to take away the
throne to his father Cronus after a war that lasted 10
years, and to achieve it, he had to free his
brothers from their father's entrails with a potion
what made him vomit all his offspring, forming alliances
with some of the titans, brothers of Cronos who
they had switched sides and defeated him after a
bloody battle. The titans who remained faithful
they were defeated and thrown into Tartarus, and Cronus was able to be exiled to Italy thanks to help
what the Cyclopes and the Hecatoncheires or Centimani lent to Zeus and his brothers, that
they offered to the deities, for having freed them, terrible weapons forged by them in their
Enclosure: Hades was given a solid helmet, Poseidon was armed with the trident, and Zeus with
the ray
The banishment of Cronos before his days ended in Tartarus brought the myth to the peninsula.
Italic with the name of Saturn, and although the Latin god is not fully identified with the god.
The Romans often confused the Greek Cronos with the Roman Chronus.
(personification of the god of chronological time) due to the similarity in pronunciation of the
two names.
As for Rea, despite being the mother of a supreme god, the Greeks of that time did not
they were honored as they deserved, there weren't even temples dedicated to her. In later times,
due to the influence of other eastern worships, she was identified with the 'Great Mother' of Asia
Minor, Cibeles. The Romans honored her with the name of Ops or Rhea, but later on she...
merged with the name of Cibeles.
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