She had also sent a goat named Amaltheia and a few other nymphs to tend to him and they raised him deep within a cave. Fearing Kronos would hear Zeus' crying, Rhea sent Nymphs to make noise so loud, Kronos would never hear him. Rhea left Zeus on the island of Crete where he grew up. Rhea then took a boulder (provided to her by Gaia) which she wrapped in a blanket, which she gave to Kronos instead of Zeus. However, when Rhea was pregnant with her sixth child, Zeus, she went to a cave on Mount Ida in Crete where she gave birth to him in private. In fear of his father's words that one of his own children would overthrow him, he then swallowed them after they were born. Kronos married his sister Rhea and they had six children Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus. Eventually, Gaea took a new husband, Pontus - and later Tartarus (Protogenoi) - and Kronos had become the new king and ruler of the universe. Where Kronos threw Ouranos' genitalia, sea foam started to form and Aphrodite sprung forth from it. Ouranos' blood spilled acrosd the earth, and from it came forth the Gigantes, and Erinyes (the Furies). Kronos castrated Ouranos, and threw his genitals into the sea, as an insult to Okeanos for not helping with the murder. When Ouranos came down to earth to lay with Gaia, the four of them ambushed their father, holding him down by his arms and legs. He took the scythe and then convinced his older brothers (Hyperion, Koios, Krios, and Iapetos) to help him ambush their father (Okeanos, the eldest Titan, refused to help with the murder).
The Titans, however, out of fear of their father, refused.
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She then gathered her remaining children, the Titans, urging them to take the scythe, so as to take vengeance against Ouranos and free their brothers. Ouranos, however, hated his children he then locked the Hekatonkheires and Elder Kyklopes deep within Gaea, causing her great displeasure and pain.Īngered at Ouranos and his actions, Gaea then created a sickle from the strongest metal. Gaea and Ouranos had three races of children the Hekatonkheires, the Elder Kyklopes, and the Titans Kronos was the youngest Titan. 1.4 Titanomachy and Kronos's punishment.
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