
Painfully swollen with offspring, she wrought a huge sickle and asked her children, six brothers and six sisters (the Titans), to punish Ouranos.


When their children were born, Ouranos hid them in Gaia's inward places. 750 b.c.e.), Ouranos ("Sky") mated nightly with Gaia (" Earth"). Was sometimes also mistakenly identified with Chronos, the god of time.Īccording to the Greek poet Hesiod, in his Theogony (c.

Kronos figures in Greek mythology both as an ogre and as the king whose reign was the Golden Age.
