The God Who Ate His Children

The story of how the god Cronus (or Saturn) devouring his children led to the creation of the world as the ancient Greeks knew it.

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The Three Fates Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos.
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Saturn, Roman god.
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Large Kronos Statue at Jeita Grotto
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Saturn
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Gathering Of Various Olympian Gods And Mythological Figures Among Clouds
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Aeneas And The Sibyl In The Underworld
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Cronos and Rhea, Sacred Rites, Religious and Mythological Symbols and Religious Paraphernalia of Greece and RomeEngraving Antique Illustration, Published 1851
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Summer garden, St Petersburg, Russia. The stone sculpture of Saturn devouring his child
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Engraving depicting the Roman God Saturn (Greek Cronus), who devoured all his children save Neptune, Pluto and Jupiter who deposed him
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The Fall Of The Titans
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Saturn devouring a son.
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Jocasta and Oedipus, Greek mythology, wood engraving, published in 1879
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The Chariot Of Zeus, 1880
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The Titans.
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God Uranus Detail
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Detail of Zeus in Piazza Navona fountain, Rome Italy
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Ancient Greece - Theatre of Dionysus, Athens
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'Paris Abducting Helen', c1782-c1784. Artist: Gavin Hamilton
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Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Austrian neurologist.
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Kronos: one of the Ancient Greek titans
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Saturn Devouring His Son (Francisco Goya)
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Head of Zeus Athens Greece
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Pelasgian Demeter (Ceres), Gods and Mythological Characters Engraving Antique Illustration, Published 1851 Engraving Antique Illustration, Published 1851
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Greek goddess Cronos o Kronos god of time
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Marble head of Hera
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Head of Hades
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Rhea, Greek goddess, wood engraving, published in 1878
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Neptune With Trident
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Copper plate etching showing Roman godde
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The sons of Uranus and Gaia, Greek mythology
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Cumulus clouds, aerial view
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