![]() "Mother, I will undertake to do this deed, for I reverence not our father of evil name, for he first thought of doing shameful things." (Cronos to Gaia. In order to overthrow him, Gaia tried to persuade the TITANS, who were also her own children by Uranus, to attack their father, but these were afraid, excepting Cronos who immediately said: However, Gaia, grieved at the destruction of her gifted children, and being strained and stretched with so many giant beings inside her, planned the destruction of her own husband and his rule as a way to set them and herself free. Uranus, for some reason or other, hated these children of his and hid them away in a secret place on earth, or as others say, cast them into Tartarus, which is a gloomy place in the Underworld as far distant from earth as earth is from the sky. ![]() Uranus married Gaia, and had children by her among which the HECATONCHEIRES, who had hundred hands and fifty heads, and the CYCLOPES, who had only one eye in their forehead. He was the son of Gaia (Earth) or, as others say, the son of Aether (the Upper Sky) and Hemera (Day). He castrated his father and became ruler of the universe, but was later overthrown by his own son Zeus.Ĭronos' father Uranus (Sky) is counted as the first to have ruled the Universe. Ovid, Fasti 4.197).Ĭronos is the wily, youngest and most terrible of the children of Uranus, whom he hated. "Thou best of kings, thou shall be ousted of thy sceptre by thy son." (Oracle given to Cronos. "There are new rulers in heaven, and Zeus governs with lawless customs that which was mighty before he now brings to nothing." (The OCEANIDS to Prometheus 1. Vatikanet, Sala dei Busti (Royal Cast Collection, Copenhagen). 8910: Skaegget mand med kappe over issen.
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