Myth of Cronus
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ScribdTranslationsCrono envied the power of his father and ruler of the universe,UranusThis had
gained the enmity ofGea, mother of Cronos and the other Titans, when she hid
your younger giant children, theCyclopswith only one eye and theHecatoncheiresof a hundred
arms and fifty heads, in theTartarso that they would not see the light. Gaia created a great
hereofflintand gathered Crono and his brothers to convince them to kill
Uranus. Only Cronus was willing to fulfill his will, so Gaia gave him the sickle and
he set a trap for him. When Uranus encountered Gaia, Cronos attacked him with
the sickle and himcastroFrom which splashed on the Earth arose theGiantstheFuriesand the
MeliasCrono threw the sickle into the sea (which gave rise to the island ofCorfu) and the member
amputated from Uranus, which produced a foam from which emergedAphrodite
After defeating Uranus, Cronus imprisoned the Hecatoncheires and the
Cyclopes, whom he feared, and left them under the custody of the monstrous jailer.Champ.
He ascended to the throne alongside his sister.Reaas kings of the gods. This time of reign
it was named after Cronogolden agefor people back then did not need laws nor
rules: everyone did the right thing and immorality did not exist.
Crono knew of Gea and Uranus that he was destined to be overthrown by one of his own.
children, as he had defeated his father. Therefore, although he was a father withReafrom the
godsDemeter, Hera, Hades, HestiayPoseidonthey devoured them as soon as they were born.
When her sixth child was about to be born,ZeusRea asked Gea to devise a plan to
save them so that Crono would finally have the just punishment for his actions against his father
and her own children. Rhea secretly gave birth to Zeus on the island ofCreteand delivered to Crono
a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes, which he immediately swallowed without suspicion believing that
he was his son.
Rhea kept Zeus hidden in a cave.Mount Idain Crete.
When he had grown, Zeus used a poison that Gaia gave him to force Cronus to
regurgitate the contents of your stomach in reverse order: first the stone, and then to
the rest of his brothers. After freeing his brothers, Zeus freed from Tartarus the
Hecatoncheires and the Cyclopes, who forged the lightning bolts for him, the trident for
Poseidon and the case of darkness for Hades. In a great war called the
TitanomachyZeus and his brothers and sisters overthrew with the help of the
Hecatoncheires and the Cyclopes to Cronus and the other Titans. After this, many of them
they were locked up in theTartar, while others do not (such as Crono, Epimetheus, Menecio,
Ocean and Prometheus). Gaia gave birth to the monsterTyphoonto avenge the imprisoned
Titans, although Zeus would eventually defeat him.
