Cronus
It is known that Cronus was a god called the Titans and
Cronus is the titan of time. Cronus is one of the 12 children of Uranus and
Gaia that were locked in their mother Gaia. Uranus heard of a prophecy that one
of his children would one day defeat him and become the king of the heavens.
Uranus was so scared that he locked all of his children away in their mother’s
body. Cronus escaped from his mother’s body using an unbreakable sickle. Cronus
defeated his father at night while his father was asleep and struck his father.
Not a fatal blow but a blow to turn him into a shadow. His father was defeated
and a daughter Aphrodite was born from the pieces of her father that fell into
the sea.
Cronus the Father of the First Six
Olympian gods and goddesses
Cronus defeated his father and then fathered the first six
Olympian gods and goddesses. The
Olympian gods and goddesses are: Poseidon, Hades, Zeus, Hera, Demeter, and
Hestia. Five of the six children got swallowed by Cronus. Only Zeus did not get
swallowed because his mother Rhea hid him on the island of Crete and gave
Cronus a stone wrapped in baby clothes to fool him into thinking it was
Zeus. Cronus swallowed the stone
instead. Zeus became a young man with an excellent tan. When Zeus grew he gave Cronus a drink that
Cronus thought would make him stronger, instead it made him throw up his
children and that stone. Zeus and his
siblings waged war on Cronus and the Titans.
The war lasted ten years until Gaia told Zeus that he could win the war
if he freed his cousins and uncles from Tartarus – part of the underworld. The Cyclops’ gave Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades
each a magic weapon. They gave Zeus his
famous Master bolt (lightning bolt), Poseidon received a trident (three tipped
spear) that can divide the seas. Hades
got a helm of invisibility which enabled him to walk among enemies unseen. The crashing blow came when the Cyclops’ and
Hundred Handed ones threw boulders among the Titans' ranks. Cronus and the Titans were locked up in
Tartarus. Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades won
so they split creation among them. Zeus
became god of the sky, thunder and lightning, and was made king of the
Olympians. Poseidon became god of the
sea and earthquakes. Hades became god of
the underworld.
