Cronus
Greek mythology · titan · time's harvest, the old order
Youngest Titan, who unmanned his father and swallowed his own children to dodge the same prophecy. Tricked into swallowing a stone in place of Zeus, he was overthrown in turn, in some tellings, to reign again over the blessed dead.
Stories
The Titanomachy
For ten years the young gods war against Cronus and the Titans, until Zeus frees the hundred-handed giants and the Cyclopes forge his thunderbolt. The old order falls into Tartarus; Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades divide the cosmos by lot, and only Prometheus among the Titans stands with the victors.
The Birth of Aphrodite
Cronus's sickle ends the tyranny of Uranus, and where the severed flesh falls into the sea, foam gathers. From it steps Aphrodite, desire itself, and grass rises under her feet as she comes ashore at Cyprus.