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Ninurta, [1] Enlil [2] In Ancient Greek religion and mythology, Cronus, Cronos, or Kronos (/ ˈkroʊnəs / or / ˈkroʊnɒs /, from Greek: Κρόνος, Krónos) was the leader and youngest of the first generation of Titans, the divine descendants of the primordial Gaia (Mother Earth) and Uranus (Father Sky). He overthrew his father and ruled ...
Chronos. Chronos (/ ˈkroʊnɒs, - oʊs /; Ancient Greek: Χρόνος, romanized: Khronos, lit. 'Time' , [kʰrónos]), also spelled Chronus, is a personification of time in pre-Socratic philosophy and later literature. [1] Chronos is frequently confused with, or perhaps consciously identified with, the Titan, Cronus, in antiquity, due to the ...
Hecatoncheires. In Greek mythology, the Hecatoncheires, Hekatoncheires (Greek: Ἑκατόγχειρες, lit. " Hundred-Handed Ones "), also called Hundred-Handers or Centimanes[1] (/ ˈsɛntɪmeɪnz /; Latin: Centimani), were three monstrous giants, of enormous size and strength, each with fifty heads and one hundred arms. They were ...
Saturn Devouring His Son is a painting by Spanish artist Francisco Goya. It is traditionally considered a depiction of the Greek myth of the Titan Cronus, whom the Romans called Saturn, eating one of his children out of fear of a prophecy by Gaea that one of his children would overthrow him. [a] The work is one of the 14 so-called Black ...
Zeus is the child of Cronus and Rhea, the youngest of his siblings to be born, though sometimes reckoned the eldest as the others required disgorging from Cronus's stomach. In most traditions, he is married to Hera , by whom he is usually said to have fathered Ares , Eileithyia , Hebe , and Hephaestus .
In Greek mythology, the Titans (Ancient Greek: οἱ Τῑτᾶνες, hoi Tītânes, singular: ὁ Τῑτᾱ́ν, -ήν, ho Tītân) were the pre-Olympian gods. [1] According to the Theogony of Hesiod, they were the twelve children of the primordial parents Uranus (Sky) and Gaia (Earth), with six male Titans— Oceanus, Coeus, Crius, Hyperion ...
In Greek mythology, Cronius (Ancient Greek: Κρόνιον Kronios means "of Cronus" [1]) was the son of the Rhodian nymph Himalia and Zeus. He was the brother of Spartaeus and Cytus. [2] When Cronius and his brothers were still young men, Aphrodite travelling from Cythera to Cyprus, dropped near Rhodes but was prevented by the sons of Poseidon ...
In Greek mythology, Hades, the god of the Greek underworld, was the first-born son of the Titans Cronus and Rhea. He had three older sisters, Hestia, Demeter, and Hera, as well as a younger brother, Poseidon, all of whom had been swallowed whole by their father as soon as they were born.