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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 34. Chapters: Titan, Cyclops, Tartarus, Rhea, Charybdis, Erinyes, Oceanus, Mnemosyne, Echidna, Themis, Giants, Tethys, Theia, Iapetus, Coeus, Creusa, Phorcys, Typhon, Python, Crius, Nereus, Antaeus, Pheme, Thaumas, Eurybia, Ourea, Hyperion, Cronus, Uranus, Hekatonkheires, Ceto, Erichthonius of Athens, Pontus, Phoebe, Ananke, Manes, Aergia, Mimas. Excerpt: In Greek mythology, Cronus or Kronos (Ancient Greek:, Kronos) was the leader and the youngest of the first generation of Titans, divine descendants of Gaia, the earth, and Uranus, the sky. He overthrew his father and ruled during the mythological Golden Age, until he was overthrown by his own sons, Zeus, Hades, and Poseidon, and imprisoned in Tartarus. Cronus was usually depicted with a sickle or scythe, which was also the weapon he used to castrate and depose Uranus, his father. In Athens, on the twelfth day of the Attic month of Hekatombaion, a festival called Kronia was held in honor of Cronus to celebrate the harvest, suggesting that, as a result of his association with the virtuous Golden Age, Cronus continued to preside as a patron of harvest. Cronus was also identified in classical antiquity with the Roman deity Saturn. H. J. Rose, A Handbook of Greek Mythology (1928), observed that attempts to give Kronos a Greek etymology have failed. Recently, Janda (2010) offers a genuinely Indo-European etymology of "the cutter," from the root *(s)ker- "to cut" (Greek, c.f. English shear), motivated by Cronus' characteristic act of "cutting the sky" (or the genitals of anthropomorphic Uranus). The Indo-Iranian reflex of the root is kar, generally meaning "to make, create" (whence karma), but Janda argues that the original meaning "to cut" in a cosmogonic sense is still preserved in some verses of the Rigveda pertaining to Indra's heroic "cutting," like that of Cronus res...
