Cronus was the youngest of the 12 titans, best-known for swallowing his children - Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, and Poseidon - to thwart a foretelling of his offspring overthrowing him. When his wife/sister Rhea bore Zeus, she hid the child and gave Cronus a rock to swallow instead. ...
The doings of Cronus, and the sufferings which in turn his son inflicted upon him, even if they were true, ought certainly not to be lightly told to young and thoughtless persons; if possible, they had better be buried in silence. But if there is an absolute necessity for their mention,...
Rhea was pretty sick of Cronus eating all her children, so when Zeus was born, she wrapped up a stone in baby clothes and fed that to Cronus instead of little Zeus. Zeus grew up in exile to protect him from his own father. When he got old enough, Zeus confronted Cronus and fed him...
"[The Okeanides (Oceanids)] offspring of fruitful (polyteknos) Tethys and of him who with his sleepless current encircles the whole earth, children of your father Okeanos (Oceanus)."Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 528 ff : "[The Okeanides (Oceanids) :] By the side of the ceaseless stream ...
. . [inquiring after the manner of his death, in reply to which the suitor tells the story of the wooing of Penelope and the slaying of the suitors by Odysseus.] Thus the two spoke to one another, as they stood in the house of Aides beneath the depths of the earth (ein Aïdao ...
ThefatestoldCronusthatoneofhischildrenwouldoverthrowhim.Hissolutionwastoswallow eachchildwholerightafterhisorherbirth.Therethelivinggodswereimprisonedwithintheir father.Rheahadotherideas.Whenshewasabouttogivebirthtohersixthchild,Zeus,shehid deepwithinasecretcaveonthesacredisleofCrete.There,thebleatingofgoatsdrow...
In the Ancient world, the middle of summer was also typically the celebration ofKronia(sometimes also Cronia) a festival honoring Cronus/Kronos, the progenitor of the Olympian gods later associated with Saturn in Roman mythology. If you know the story about Cronus swallowing his children at birth...
Kronos Eats All The Children He Can Produce And Cuts Off His Dad's Penis Back when the world was just beginning, at least according to the Greeks, there was a TitanGod named Kronos(or Cronus, depending on our records). He was birthed of a god calledOuranos, also called The Sky, and...
This sort of “be careful what you wish for” theme that surrounds the Yohtorozu mystery reminds me of the classic 1902 horror short story“The Monkey’s Paw” by W.W. Jacobs. If there were such a thing as Yohtorozu, the object of the Monkey’s Paw would certainly been of his cons...
One standout memory was when, around the age of 8, I had to wait in line for three hours with my family, just to see the Spanish artist Francisco Goya’s painting at a museum in Tokyo. The work depicted Titan Cronus (or Saturn) eating his own children. The image was hau...