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In an ancient myth recorded by Hesiod's Theogony, Cronus envied the power of his father, Uranus, the ruler of the universe.Uranus drew the enmity of Cronus's mother, Gaia, when he hid the gigantic youngest children of Gaia, the hundred-handed Hecatoncheires and one-eyed Cyclopes, in Tartarus, so that they would not see the light.
So Gaia hid Cronus in "ambush", giving him the adamantine sickle, and when Uranus came to lie with Gaia, Cronus reached out and castrated his father, casting the severed testicles into the sea. [38] Uranus's castration allowed the Titans to rule and Cronus to assume supreme command of the cosmos. [39]
So Gaia hid Cronus in "ambush", gave him an adamantine sickle, and when Uranus came to lie with Gaia, Cronus reached out and castrated his father. [47] This enabled the Titans to be born and Cronus to assume supreme command of the cosmos, with the Titans as his subordinates. [48] Rhea presenting Cronus the stone wrapped in cloth
Rhea giving the rock to Cronus, 19th-century painted frieze by Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Gaia and Uranus told Cronus that just as he had overthrown his own father and become ruler of the cosmos, he was destined to be overcome by his own child; so as each of his children was born, he swallowed them. [19]
Angry and in distress, Gaia fashioned a sickle made of adamant and urged her children to punish their father. Only her son Cronus, the youngest Titan, was willing to do so. [15] So Gaia hid Cronus in "ambush" and gave him the adamantine sickle, and when Uranus came to lie with Gaia, Cronus reached out and castrated his father. [16]
The name Uranus references the ancient Greek deity of the sky Uranus (Ancient Greek: Οὐρανός), known as Caelus in Roman mythology, the father of Cronus , grandfather of Zeus and the great-grandfather of Ares , which was rendered as Uranus in Latin (IPA: [ˈuːranʊs]). [2]
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Gaia is the mother to the twelve Titans; Oceanus, Coeus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus, Theia, Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, Tethys, and Cronus. [6] Later in the myth, after his succession, Uranus curses Cronus so that his own son will overthrow him, just as Cronus did to Uranus. To try to prevent this, Cronus swallows all of his children as soon ...