The Ancient Greek festival of Cronus took place on this date. This festival commemorated the Golden age, when Cronus ruled the world. 10 things you might not know about Cronus:
He was the son of Uranus (Heaven) and Gaea (Earth) and the youngest of the Titans.
Alternate spellings of his name include Chronus, Chronos, Cronus, Kronos, and Kronus.
He’s sometimes depicted as a vigorous male, and sometimes as an old man with a long Beard. He might be carrying a walking stick, a scythe, sickle or harpe (a kind of curved sword).
The reason for the scythe is because, according to myth, Gaia got rather fed up with Uranus and his shenanigans and called upon her children to castrate him. It was Cronus who stepped up, using such an adamantine sickle to fulfil the task.
Cronus is married to Rhea, who is also a Titan. He wasn’t a great father to his own children, either – he used to eat them so they couldn’t overthrow him. In the end, Rhea gave Cronus a rock wrapped in a blanket instead of her baby, Zeus, and sent him away to be brought up in secret. Zeus overthrew Cronus and made him regurgitate his siblings.
Cronus was sometimes confused with Chronos, the god of time, which resulted in the “Old Father Time” character who appears on New Year's Eve, carrying a sickle, and is replaced by a baby representing the new year.
The word "crone," meaning an older woman, may also derive from the same root as Kronos.
The Roman equivalent of Cronus is Saturn, after whom the planet Saturn is named. The Greek word for the planet is "Cronus".
The planet Pluto was almost named Cronus, but the astronomy community voted against it because they didn’t like the person who suggested it, Thomas Jefferson Jackson See.
Cronus did get a star named after him, though. Star HD 240430 was named after him in 2017 when it was reported to have swallowed its planets.
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