The blood that fell into the sea created white foam from which the goddess Aphrodite emerged.Īfter dispatching Uranus, Cronus once again incarcerated his youngest siblings, the Hecatonchires and the Cyclopes and commanded the dragon Campe to guard them. Only Cronus was willing to commit the act, and when it was all over the blood that fell onto the Earth from Uranus created the Gigantes, Erinyes and Meliae. Gaia created a great stone sickle and persuaded Cronus and his Titan brothers to castrate Uranus. Uranus angered Gaia when he hid her children, the Hecatonchires and the Cyclopes in Tartarus, and they were imprisoned unable to see the light. Hesiod in his Theogony recorded this saga Cronus envied the power of his father, the ruler of the universe.
With the help of his Titan brothers, Cronus was able to depose his father Uranus and rule the cosmos, ruling during the mythological Golden Age. In Greek mythology, Cronus was the primordial God of time, in which time was described as a destructive, all-devouring force.
