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21 lis 2023 · The goddess who saved infant Zeus from Cronus was Rhea, his mother and wife of Cronus. She tricked Cronus into swallowing a stone instead of Zeus by wrapping the stone in swaddling clothes and giving it to Cronus to swallow.
Cronus, in ancient Greek religion, male deity who was worshipped by the pre-Hellenic population of Greece but was probably not widely worshipped by the Greeks themselves; he was later identified with the Roman god Saturn. Cronus’s functions were connected with agriculture.
21 maj 2019 · The child (Zeus = future) is unwanted because it poses a threat to the parent (Cronus = present), and a struggle is inevitable if the present is allowed to stand in the way of future.
8 mar 2023 · First, Zeus forced Cronus to regurgitate the other children—Hestia, Hera, Demeter, Hades, and Poseidon—whom Cronus had swallowed as soon as they were born. Zeus and his siblings then banded together against their father and became known as the Olympians, so named for their home on Mount Olympus.
14 lut 2024 · Zeus, instead of giving Cronus the child, gave him a stone in a blanket. He swallowed it believing it was the baby. Rhea then hid the baby Zeus on the island of Crete to be raised by the nymphs.
8 sty 2024 · Their exact origin and genealogy vary across sources, however, Cronus is usually cited as their father. In some tales, the Corybantes were viewed as Zeus’s infant guardians or protectors. Rhea tried to hide Zeus after he was born, afraid that Cronus would consume him as he had done with his previous offspring.
25 paź 2022 · Cronus regularly travelled from one end of Greece to another, visiting his Titan siblings and ensuring they were not plotting against him. When he returned home, Rhea pretended to give birth and handed Cronus the "baby". In reality, the baby was the special stone that she had swaddled in blankets.
