( Roman: Saturn)
Parents: uranus and gaia
Siblings: Rhea, Oceanus, Hyperion, Theia,
Coeus, Phoebe, Iapetus, Crisus, Mnemosyne,
Tethys and Themis
Children: Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Hades, Hestia,
Demeter, Chiron
Wife: Rhea
Symbol: sickle
Cronus’s father was Uranus (the sky or heavens) and
his mother was Gaia( the earth)
After Uranus cast many creatures to tartarus Gaia became very angry
Gaia created a giant stone sickle and asked her
children to castrate Uranus, only Cronus was
willing to do this.
Out of Uranus's manhood came many
creatures including Aphrodite cronus
locked all the creatures up into tartarus
including the ones Uranus imprisoned
After destroying his father Cronus and
Rhea took the throne as king and
queen
Cronus’s reign was called the golden age
because during his time rules and laws
were unheard of because immorality was
absent
Cronus was the god of harvest and
during his time the reap was
plentiful
But not all was great after Cronus took the
throne
All were devoured but one. zeus
Zeus was saved by his mother and placed on
the island of crete were he grew too be
strong and was destined to overthrow his
father
After zeus grew strong he gave metis(his
cousin) an emetic (a medicine used to
induce vomiting similar to our ipecac)
cronus threw up all of his children
After zeus free’d the monsters from
tartarus, with the lightning bolt they
crated out of gratitude, and his
brothers and sisters zeus led an
attack on the titans the was called
titanomachy.
After the war was over and the
Olympian god reigned the
titans were imprisoned in
tartarus
Zeus began his reign of the ruler
of olympus
Later zeus freed the titans to
rule Elysium ( the resting place
for victorious souls ) and
Cronus is king