Editing Cronus

Cronus was the King of the Titans and the god of time, in particular time when viewed as a destructive, all-devouring force.

He ruled the cosmos during the Golden Age after castrating and deposing his father Uranus. In fear of a prophecy that he would in turn be overthrown by his own son, Cronos swallowed each of his children as they were born. Rhea managed to save the youngest, Zeus, by hiding him away on the island of Crete, and fed Cronos a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes. The god grew up, forced Cronos to disgorge his swallowed offspring, and led the Olympians in a ten year war against the Titans, driving them in defeat into the pit of Tartarus.

Many human generations later, Zeus released Cronos and his brothers from their prison, and made the old Titan king of the Elysian Islands, home of the blessed dead.

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