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<h2 id="cronos-devora-a-sus-hijos">Cronus Devours His Children</h2>

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Cronus (Saturn) was the youngest of the Titans, children of Mother Earth and Uranus (the earth and the sky). Uranus hated his children and hid them within Mother Earth, causing her great pain. As revenge, she fashioned a sickle for Cronus and persuaded him to slay his father. Once he had fulfilled her wishes, he wed his sister Rhea, but fearing that his own children would rise up against him, he swallowed them as soon as they were born: first Hestia, then Demeter, Hera, Hades, and Poseidon. However, when Zeus, his sixth child, was about to be born, Rhea gave birth to him in the silence of the night and entrusted him to the care of his mother, Mother Earth. Instead of handing the baby over, she gave Cronus a stone to swallow. When Zeus grew up, he asked to become Cronus's cupbearer&#46;&#46; and so he prepared for his father a powerful substance that made him vomit up the stone and his other five elder children. Zeus then led his siblings to war against the Titans, whom they defeated and banished to Tartarus, in the underworld. Henceforth, Zeus would reign as the supreme ruler of the gods.