Cronus

Cronus
God of the harvest
Member of the Titans
Rhea offers the stone to Cronus, red-figure ceramic vase c. 460-450 BC, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Ancient Greek	Κρόνος
Predecessor	Uranus
Successor	Zeus
Abode	Mount Othrys (formerly) Tartarus
Planet	Saturn
Battles	Titanomachy
Animals	Snake
Symbol	Grain, sickle, scythe
Day	Saturday (hēméra Krónou)
Personal information
Parents	Uranus and Gaia
Siblings	Titans Crius Coeus Dione Hyperion Iapetus Oceanus Mnemosyne Phoebe Rhea Tethys Theia Themis Hecatoncheires Briareos Cottus Gyges Cyclopes Arges Brontes Steropes Other siblings Gigantes Erinyes Meliae Half-siblings Aphrodite Eurybia Ceto Nereus Phorcys Pontus Python Thaumas Typhon Uranus
Consort	Rhea
Offspring	Hestia, Hades, Demeter, Poseidon, Hera, Zeus, Chiron
Equivalents
Roman equivalent	Saturn
Egyptian equivalent	Geb
Mesopotamian equivalent	Ninurta,[1] Enlil[2]

In Ancient Greek religion and mythology, Cronus, Cronos, or Kronos (/ˈkroʊnəs/ or /ˈkroʊnɒs/, from Greek: Κρόνος, Krónos) was the leader and youngest of the first generation of Titans, the divine descendants of the primordial Gaia (Mother Earth) and Uranus (Father Sky). He overthrew his father and ruled during the mythological Golden Age, until he was overthrown by his own son Zeus and imprisoned in Tartarus. According to Plato, however, the deities Phorcys, Cronus, and Rhea were the eldest children of Oceanus and Tethys.^[3]

Cronus was usually depicted with a harpe, scythe or a sickle, which was the instrument he used to castrate and depose Uranus, his father. In Athens, on the twelfth day of the Attic month of Hekatombaion, a festival called Kronia was held in honour of Cronus to celebrate the harvest, suggesting that, as a result of his association with the virtuous Golden Age, Cronus continued to preside as a patron of the harvest. Cronus was also identified in classical antiquity with the Roman deity Saturn.