Cronus

Names and Etymology

The linguistic origin of the ancient Greek name Kronos (Κρόνος) remains uncertain and debated among scholars.^[1][2][3][4] During antiquity, multiple philosophical and popular etymologies were proposed. In Plato's Cratylus, Socrates provides two interpretive hypotheses.^[5][6][7] The first derives the name from koros (κόρος), denoting the pure (καθαρόν) and unblemished (ἀκήρατον) nature of an intellect, suggesting that Cronus embodies pure mind and that his son Zeus is the offspring of a great intellect.^[5][8][9] The second hypothesis suggests that Rhea and Cronus were named after running streams, with Rhea deriving from rhoe (ῥοή, meaning stream, flux, or flow) and Cronus from chronos (χρόνος, meaning time).^[6][7][10] The author of the Derveni Papyrus, one of the oldest surviving literary papyri of Greek antiquity discovered in 1962, derived the name Kronos from the verb krouein (κρούειν), meaning to strike, clash, or collide.^[11] The Stoic philosopher Cornutus stated that Cronus represents the primary principle of time reaching everything, making him the most fearsome among his divine siblings.^[12] In the fifth century AD, the Neoplatonist philosopher Proclus analysed the name in his Commentary on Plato's Cratylus, identifying Cronus as the singular first cause equivalent to Chronos.^[13]

Modern linguists have explored several Indo-European derivations while rejecting ancient allegorical wordplays. H. J. Rose stated that attempts to establish a purely Greek etymology had failed.^[14][15] Michael Janda proposed an Indo-European derivation from the root *(s)ker-, meaning to cut (cognate with Greek keiro, meaning to shear or cut), yielding an original meaning of the cutter.^[16][17][18] This designation corresponds to the mythological act of cutting the sky or castrating the anthropomorphic Uranus.^[16][17] The Indo-Iranian reflex of this root appears as kar-, which generally developed the meaning to make or create (the source of the Sanskrit word karma), but Janda argues that the cosmogonic sense of cutting as creation is preserved in Rigvedic hymns describing the heroics of Indra.^[17][18] Specifically, Rigveda 10.104.10 states that Indra struck Vrtra fatally, cutting or creating a free path, and Rigveda 6.47.4 states that he cut or created the loftiness of the sky.^[16][19][20] This suggests a reconstructed Proto-Indo-European mytheme *(s)kert wersmn diwos, signifying that through a cut he created the height of the sky.^{[16][17][18][19]} Leonid I. Kulikov supported this view, analysing the name as the root for cutting combined with an agentive suffix -ono-, denoting the cutter or shearer.^[21] Earlier philologists such as Georg Curtius and Paul Kretschmer connected the name to the Greek verb kraino (κραίνω), meaning to bring to pass, execute, accomplish, or fulfill, making Cronus the fulfiller.^[3][21][22] Albert Carnoy suggested a derivation from the verb korennumi (κορέννυμι), meaning to feed or satiate, or from an Indo-European root *gwerō, meaning to devour or swallow, directly reflecting the myth of swallowing his offspring.^[2][21] Albert Joris Van Windekens proposed an affiliation with the Indo-European root *ger-, meaning mountain or summit, found in Pelasgian toponyms, which would interpret Cronus as the god of the mountain peak.^[2]

A theory debated in the nineteenth century holds that the name Kronos is related to "horned", assuming a Semitic derivation from *qrn..^{[23][24][25][26]} Andrew Lang objected that Cronus is never represented with horns in classical Hellenic art.^[27] Robert Brown replied that in Semitic linguistic usage, including the Hebrew Bible, qeren served as a metaphor for power rather than physical animal horns.^[28] In this context, Brown noted that Greek writers encountering the Levantine deity El routinely rendered his name as Cronus.^[29][30] Robert Graves suggested a folk etymological connection with korone (κορώνη), the ancient Greek word for crow, noting that depictions of crows occasionally accompanied statues of Saturn and other deities.

The phonetic similarity between Kronos and Chronos (Χρόνος), the primordial personification of time, led to early syncretism.^{[2][31][32][33][34]} Beginning in the classical era and developing through Orphic, Stoic, and Neoplatonic circles, the Titan was allegorised as universal time.^{[34][35][36][37]} Cicero explained in De Natura Deorum that the Greek name Kronos is synonymous with chronos because the god maintains the seasons and temporal cycles, while the Latin name Saturnus derived from satur (saturated or sated with years), allegorising time devouring the ages just as Cronus devoured his children.^{[7][37][38][39]} Plutarch noted that Greeks interpreted Cronus allegorically as time.^{[7][40][41][42]} In his treatise On the Gods and the World, Saloustios explained that commentators recognised Cronus in chronos, portraying the swallowed children as parts of time consumed by their father.^[34] This allegorical fusion became entrenched among Hellenistic scholars in Alexandria and later in the Renaissance, where it produced the visual figure of Father Time, a winged elderly man carrying a scythe, an hourglass, and occasionally the zodiac wheel or the ouroboros.^{[6][31][43][44]} Modern linguists nevertheless consider Kronos and Chronos historically and etymologically independent, holding that their similarity arose from later interpretation rather than a shared origin..^{[2][3][22][36][45]}

Mythological Narrative

In the standard theogonic tradition recorded by Hesiod, the universe emerged from Chaos, followed by Gaia (Earth), Tartarus (the underworld abyss), and Eros (Desire).^[46] Without a mate, Gaia produced Uranus (Sky), the Ourea (Mountains), and Pontus (Sea).^[46] Gaia then mated with Uranus to produce three distinct groups of offspring: the twelve Titans, the three one-eyed Cyclopes, and the three hundred-handed Hecatoncheires.^[46] The twelve Titans comprised six males (Oceanus, Coeus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus, and Cronus) and six females (Theia, Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, and Tethys).^[46] Hesiod describes Cronus as the youngest, most wily, and most terrible of Gaia's children, noting that he harboured hatred toward his lusty father from the beginning.^[46][47][48] An alternative tradition preserved by Plato in the Timaeus records that Phorcys, Cronus, and Rhea were the eldest offspring of Oceanus and Tethys, who were themselves children of Uranus and Gaia.^[49][50] Hyginus writes that Saturn was the son of Aether and Gaia.^[51] In Pelasgian mythological fragments, Eurynome and the serpent Ophion were said to have created the cosmic spheres, assigning Cronus and Rhea to govern the planet Saturn before being overthrown.^[32]

The Castration of Uranus

Uranus hated his giant younger children, the Cyclopes (Brontes, Steropes, and Arges) and the Hecatoncheires (Cottos, Briareos, and Gyes), and immediately upon their births he concealed them inside the dark depths of the Earth in Tartarus, forbidding them from seeing the light.^[46][47][52] Hesiod does not specify the exact reason for Uranus's hatred beyond noting their terrible strength, while some modern sources say the Cyclopes and Hecatoncheires were imprisoned because they looked hideous and terrible.^[46][53] Gaia suffered great pain from holding her children within her womb and devised a plot to punish her husband.^[46][47][54] She created a element of grey flint (or adamantine metal according to Apollodorus) and forged a jagged sickle or harpe.^{[46][47][55][56]} Gaia gathered her Titan sons and asked them to strike against their father, reminding them of his wickedness.^{[46][47][54][57]} While his older brothers were gripped with terror and remained silent, Cronus alone volunteered for the task, declaring that he held no respect for their infamous father.^{[46][47][52][54]}

Gaia placed Cronus in an ambush and armed him with the sickle.^{[46][47][54][58]} According to Hesiod, when Uranus arrived with the coming of night to lie with Gaia, Cronus reached out with his left hand, grasped his father, and with his right hand swung the sickle to sever Uranus's genitals, subsequently casting them into the sea behind him.^{[46][52][58][59][60]} Folk traditions associate this action with the belief that the left hand is an omen of misfortune.^[60] According to local legends, the weapon used was forged by the Telchines.^[61] Cronus threw the sickle into the sea, where it was said to have fallen near Cape Drepano in Achaea or beneath the island of Corfu, giving the island its ancient sickle-shaped name of Drepane and making the Phaeacians an indigenous people born from the drops of blood that hit the tool.^{[59][62][63][64][65][66]} Other traditions claim the sickle was preserved in a subterranean cave at Zancle in Sicily, around which strong defensive wooden towers were constructed.^[67][68][69]

The blood dripping from the severed genitals of Uranus produced several groups of mythological beings upon striking Gaia.^[46][54][59] From these drops of blood sprang the strong Erinyes (named by Apollodorus as Alecto, Tisiphone, and Megaera), the armoured Gigantes carrying long spears, and the ash-tree nymphs known as the Meliae.^{[46][54][55][59]} The severed genitals drifted across the sea for a long duration, surrounded by white divine foam.^[46][54][59] From this foam developed the goddess Aphrodite, who floated past the island of Cythera and made landfall on Cyprus, causing grass to sprout under her feet; she was consequently styled Aphrodite (foam-born), Cytherea, Cyprogenes, and Philommedes.^{[46][54][59][60]} Following his mutilation, Uranus cursed his rebellious offspring, calling them Titanes (meaning those who strain or stretch presumptuously) because they had overstepped their boundaries and daringly committed the crime, prophesying that retribution would inevitably overtake them.^[54][59][70]

The Reign of Cronus and the Golden Age

After Uranus was deposed, Cronus took power..^{[55][71][72][73][74]} While Hesiod implies that Cronus never liberated the Cyclopes and Hecatoncheires, Pseudo-Apollodorus records that the Titans initially brought their imprisoned brothers out of Tartarus and confirmed Cronus's supreme rule, after which Cronus bound them once more and locked them within Tartarus, setting the female dragon Campe to guard their subterranean prison.^{[55][72][73][75][76]} Hesiod explains in Theogony that Cronus reimprisoned the Cyclopes out of foolishness and lack of wisdom, whereas he bound the Hecatoncheires out of jealousy regarding their exceeding manhood, beauty, and physical stature.^[46] Cronus took his sister Rhea as his consort, and together they ruled over heaven and earth.^[72][73]

The era of Cronus's rule was remembered as the Golden Age.^{[72][77][78][79][80]} In Works and Days, Hesiod recounts that the golden race of mortals was created during Cronus's heavenly kingship.^[77][78][79] People lived like gods, free from toil, sorrow, diseases, and harsh old age, enjoying constant festivities with peaceful hearts.^[78][79][80] The fertile earth spontaneously yielded crops in abundance without the necessity of agricultural labor, and mortals died peacefully as if overcome by sleep.^[79][81] Because immorality, greed, and conflict were absent, human beings required neither laws nor courts.^[72][80] When this generation of mortals died, they were transformed by the design of Zeus into beneficent subterranean or terrestrial spirits (daimones) who watch over mortals and uphold justice.^[77][82]

The Swallowing of the Children

Cronus's peaceful external reign was marred by fear of a dynastic curse. Both Gaia and starry Uranus revealed to him that he was fated to be overthrown by his own child, just as he had overthrown his father.^[83][84][85] In response, Cronus watched Rhea vigilantly and swallowed each of their newborn infants as soon as they emerged from her womb.^{[46][83][84][86]} In chronological sequence, Cronus swallowed Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, and Poseidon, holding them captive inside his digestive tract.^{[46][83][84][87]}

Alternative traditions provide divergent details regarding the swallowed offspring. A late variant states that the prophecy pertained only to male heirs, leading Cronus to cast Hades directly into Tartarus and Poseidon into the sea depths rather than swallowing his daughters.^[88] Another tradition recorded by Pausanias claims that Rhea managed to conceal Poseidon as well: she presented Cronus with a newborn foal, which he swallowed under the impression that it was his offspring, while Poseidon was hidden among a flock of sheep near Mantinea, tended by a nurse named Arne.^[89][90] In other accounts, however, all five were swallowed and kept alive inside Cronus's belly..^[84]

The Birth and Concealment of Zeus

When Rhea became pregnant with her sixth child, Zeus, she sought counsel from Gaia and Uranus to devise an escape and secure retribution against Cronus.^[46][83][84] Her parents agreed and sent her to the island of Crete.^[46][84] Hesiod recounts that Rhea travelled through the dark night and delivered Zeus in Lyctus, handing the newborn to Gaia, who carried the infant to a secluded cave on Mount Aegeum (Aigaion).^[46][91] Other sources, such as Apollodorus, place the birth in the cave of Dicte, while Diodorus Siculus harmonises the traditions by stating that Zeus was born in Dicte and reared on Mount Ida.^[55][92][93] In place of the baby, Rhea swaddled a stone and handed it to Cronus.^{[46][74][83][84][86]} Cronus swallowed the stone without noticing the deception, believing he had consumed his son.^{[46][83][84][86]} In De astronomia, Hyginus records that when Rhea offered the bundle, Cronus asked her to nurse the infant one final time; when she pressed her breast against the hard stone, milk sprayed across the heavens, creating the Milky Way galaxy.^[86][94][95]

Zeus was reared in secrecy by local guardians. According to common traditions, he was suckled by the divine goat Amalthea, or fed honey by bees, while the Curetes (or Corybantes), young male armoured dancers, clashed their swords against their bronze shields and performed wild war dances to drown out the infant's cries so Cronus would not hear them.^{[96][97][98][99]} In Hyginus's Fabulae, Amalthea was a nymph who suspended Zeus's cradle from a tree branch with ropes, ensuring the infant was suspended between the sky, earth, and sea, none of which could be searched by Cronus because he ruled each realm directly.^{[88][96][100]} Other variants report that Zeus was raised directly by his grandmother Gaia, by the nymph Adamanthea, by Adrasteia and Ida, by Melissa, or by the nymphs Helice and Cynosura.^{[96][98][101][102][103]} One Cretan myth relates that when Cronus travelled to Crete in search of the infant, Zeus disguised himself as a snake and transformed his nurses Helice and Cynosura into bears, who were later catasterised as the constellations Ursa Major and Ursa Minor.^{[96][103][104]} In another story, Cronus transformed the protective Curetes into lions, which Rhea subsequently tamed and yoked to her sacred chariot.^{[105][106][107][108][109]}

The Overthrow and the Titanomachy

When Zeus attained adulthood, he prepared to confront his father. He sought the assistance of the Oceanid Metis, who concocted an emetic potion composed of mustard, honey, and herbs.^{[55][110][111][112][113]} Acting as a cupbearer or working with Rhea, Zeus administered the draft to Cronus.^[55] The emetic forced Cronus to disgorge what he had swallowed in reverse order: first the swaddled stone emerged, followed by Poseidon, Hades, Hera, Demeter, and Hestia, all fully grown and unharmed.^{[46][52][114][115]} Alternate traditions record that Zeus cut open his father's belly to extract his siblings.^[110] Zeus transported the disgorged stone to Pytho (Delphi) in the gorges beneath Mount Parnassus, setting it firmly into the earth as a monument and sign for mortal humans, where it became known as the Omphalos.^{[46][114][115][116]}

Acting on Gaia's advice, Zeus travelled to Tartarus, slew the guardian monster Campe, and released his uncles, the Cyclopes and the Hecatoncheires.^{[46][76][114][117]} In gratitude, the Cyclopes forged divine weapons: the thunder and lightning bolt for Zeus, the trident for Poseidon, and the helmet of invisibility for Hades.^{[46][112][117][118]} These weapons initiated the Titanomachy, a ten-year war between the Titans, based on Mount Othrys under Cronus's command, and the Olympian gods, based on Mount Olympus under Zeus.^{[46][117][119]} Not all Titans fought against Zeus; Oceanus remained neutral, while Prometheus, Epimetheus, and the titanesses did not take up arms against Olympus.^{[114][117][120]}

According to Hesiod, the two sides were evenly matched and the war lasted ten years.^[46][117] The decisive turning point arrived when Zeus brought the Hecatoncheires into the front ranks after reviving their strength with nectar and ambrosia.^[46] In the final battle, Zeus unleashed his full power: the sky and earth groaned, the forests crackled with fire, the oceans and rivers boiled, and blinding lightning flashes overwhelmed the Titans.^[121] Simultaneously, the three Hecatoncheires (Cottos, Briareos, and Gyes) hurled three hundred massive boulders in rapid succession like missiles, burying the Titans under stone.^[46] Defeated, Cronus and the allied Titans were bound in chains and cast into Tartarus.^{[46][114][117][121][122]}

Confinement in Tartarus and the Division of the Cosmos

Hesiod provides a detailed geographical description of Tartarus, the subterranean prison where Cronus and the Titans were interned.^[46] Tartarus lies as far beneath the earth as the sky stands above the earth; a bronze anvil dropped from the sky would fall for nine days and nights, reaching the earth on the tenth, and dropped from the earth it would fall for nine days and nights, reaching Tartarus on the tenth.^[46] A triple layer of night surrounds Tartarus like a necklace around a bronze wall, while the roots of the earth and the sea grow above it.^[46] Poseidon forged bronze gates to ensure no prisoner could escape, and the three Hecatoncheires were appointed as eternal wardens.^[46][122] Atlas was singled out for an individual punishment, condemned to stand at the western border of the earth and support the vault of heaven upon his shoulders.^[117][120] To avenge her imprisoned children, Gaia mated with Tartarus to generate the monster Typhon, whom Zeus eventually defeated with his thunderbolts.^[114][123]

Following their victory, the three sons of Cronus divided the cosmos by casting lots, as recorded in Homer's Iliad (Book 15) and Apollodorus.^[55][124] Poseidon explains to Iris that Zeus was allotted the wide sky among the clouds and aether, Poseidon received the grey sea, and Hades was assigned the misty darkness of the underworld, while Mount Olympus and the earth remained common ground to all three.^[124] Socrates cites this Homeric division of realms in Plato's Gorgias.^[125]

Release from Tartarus and the Isles of the Blessed

While Hesiod's Theogony and Homer's Iliad mention no release of Cronus from Tartarus, making his punishment there appear permanent, other traditions depict his eventual reconciliation with Zeus.^{[126][127][128][129][130][131][132]} Papyrological witnesses to Hesiod's Works and Days contain verses stating that Zeus released Cronus from his bonds and established him as king over the deceased heroes who reside in the Isles of the Blessed along the shores of Oceanus, where the fertile earth yields honey-sweet fruit three times a year.^{[131][133][134][135][136]} Most modern editors consider these lines to be later interpolations.^[134][137] Pindar reflects this tradition in his Olympian Odes (476 BC), describing the Isles of the Blessed where ocean breezes blow and gold flowers flame on trees and water; there, Cronus resides in his tower, with Rhadamanthys seated as his assessor, ruling beside Rhea.^{[132][138][139][140][141]}

A lost tragedy by Aeschylus, Prometheus Unbound, featured a chorus of Titans who had been liberated from Tartarus to witness Prometheus's release from his rock, which scholars suggest may have included Cronus.^[142][143] Plutarch recounts a Western myth related by the Carthaginian traveler Sylla: five thousand stadia west of the island of Ogygia, in the far ocean, lies an island where Cronus is held in deep sleep within a golden-hued cavern, guarded and served by benevolent daemons who interpret his prophetic dreams, which reveal the divine plans of Zeus.^[144] In Roman literature, Virgil's Aeneid recounts that Saturn escaped from Zeus's wrath, fled to Latium in Italy, and was received by the two-faced god Janus, where he civilized the indigenous inhabitants, established laws, and ushered in the Italian Golden Age, causing the land to be named Saturnia.^{[145][146][147]}

Variant Traditions and Other Myths

In addition to his children by Rhea, Cronus had several other mythological mates and offspring. His liaison with the Oceanid Philyra on Mount Pelion produced the wise centaur Chiron.^{[148][149][150][151][152]} Hesiod's Catalogue of Women recounts that Cronus lay with Philyra, but when Rhea surprised them, Cronus turned himself into a stallion and galloped away, or Philyra transformed herself into a mare to flee him, resulting in the half-human, half-equine form of their child.^{[150][152][153][154][155]} Grieved by Chiron's appearance, Philyra asked the gods to turn her into a linden tree..^[82][148] Other traditions name Dolops and Aphrus (the eponymous ancestor of the Aphroi or native Africans) as sons of Cronus and Philyra, with Aphrus occasionally grouped with Bythos as the ichthyocentaurs.^{[156][157][158][159][160]}

Further variant genealogies appear in diverse literary sources. The Cretan poet Epimenides claimed that Cronus married Evonyme, who bore him Aphrodite, the Moirai (Fates), and the Erinyes (Furies).^[161][162] A scholion on Apollonius of Rhodes mentions that Chiron's mother was the nymph Nais, making Chiron older than his half-brother Zeus.^[163] Aeschylus's Eumenides mentions the Erinyes as daughters of Cronus and Nyx (Night) because their vengeful retribution strikes unseen.^[164] Scholiasts also attribute to Cronus and Rhea a seventh child, the war god Enyalius, though he is more commonly regarded as a son or epithet of Ares.^[165] Other texts name Cronus as father of the Corybantes, Pan, Pluto (the mother of Tantalus), the river Nilus, Eros and the Winds, the Dactyls by the muse Calliope, the Phrygian god Sabazios, and the Roman deity Picus.^{[166][167][168][169][170][171][172][173][174]}

The Typhon Egg Variant

An alternative tradition regarding the origin of Typhon attributes his birth to an intrigue involving Cronus and Hera.^[175][176] Following the defeat of the Gigantes, Gaia slandered Zeus before Hera in anger at her sons' destruction. Distressed, Hera visited Cronus to seek a means of humbling Zeus. Cronus provided Hera with two eggs smeared with his own semen and instructed her to bury them beneath the earth, prophesying that they would hatch a creature potent enough to depose Zeus. Hera followed these directions, and from the buried eggs emerged the monster Typhon.^[175][176]

The Libyan Account of Diodorus Siculus

In the third book of Bibliotheca Historica, Diodorus Siculus preserves an euhemeristic Libyan narrative concerning Cronus and the Titans.^{[177][178][179]} According to this account, Uranus and Titaea were mortal rulers who were later deified, becoming the parents of Cronus, Rhea, and the other Titans.^[177][178] Cronus took his sister Rhea from Ammon to be his own wife..^{[177][178][179]} Cronus and the Titans made war on and defeated his brother Jupiter, who ruled Crete, and his brother-in-law Ammon, who ruled Nysa, an island in the river Triton somewhere in Africa..^{[177][178][180]} Cronus governed his newly acquired territories harshly, ruling over parts of Italy, Sicily, and northern Africa.^[178][180] Diodorus cites mountain peaks in Sicily that retained the name Kronia in his day as evidence of this dominion.^[178]

Cronus's tyrannical rule was contested by Dionysus, the son of Ammon, who led an army against Cronus and the Titans.^{[177][178][179][180]} Dionysus defeated Cronus in battle and appointed Cronus and Rhea's son, Jupiter Olympus (Zeus), as ruler over Egypt.^{[177][178][179][180]} Dionysus and Zeus joined forces to eliminate the remaining Titans in Crete.^{[177][178][179][180]} When Dionysus died, Zeus inherited all his kingdoms, unifying the dominions and becoming sovereign ruler over the inhabited world.^{[177][178][179][180]} In book five, Diodorus presents another tradition where Cronus, residing at Knossos in Crete, governed with gentleness and introduced agriculture, justice, and social harmony, causing his reign to be remembered as the Golden Age, and notes a variant where Cronus voluntarily abdicated to Zeus rather than being overthrown.^{[79][181][182][183]}

The Sibylline Oracles

Book three of the Sibylline Oracles contains a distinct retelling of the succession myth.^[177] In this text, Uranus and Gaia have three sons: Cronus, Titan, and Iapetus.^[177] Following Uranus's death, the three brothers divide the earth into three equal parts by agreement, with Cronus established as overall monarch on the condition that he produce no male heirs who might disinherit Titan's lineage.^[177][181] The sons of Titan monitor Rhea's childbearing and murder each male infant immediately after birth.^[177]

When Rhea conceives Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades, she gives birth secretly at Dodona and smuggles her sons to Phrygia, placing them in the care of three trusted Cretan guardians.^[177] Upon discovering that male heirs had survived, sixty soldiers loyal to Titan capture and imprison both Cronus and Rhea.^[177] When Zeus and his brothers learn of their parents' imprisonment, they declare and wage the first of all wars against the Titans, liberating Cronus and Rhea.^[177] This Sibylline account diverges entirely from Hesiod, making no mention of Cronus castrating Uranus or swallowing his own offspring.^[177][181]

The Satire of Lucian

The satirical author Lucian of Samosata features Cronus as a protagonist in his dialogue Saturnalia.^[184][185] In conversation with his priest, Cronus discusses his winter festival and uses the occasion to criticize social inequality and the mistreatment of the poor by wealthy citizens during festive seasons.^[184][185] Within the dialogue, Cronus explicitly rejects the Hesiodic myth that he devoured his newborn children and was violently overthrown in war.^[185][186] Instead, Cronus asserts that he grew old and tired of governance, peacefully abdicating the throne in favour of his son Zeus.^[185][186] He explains that he resumes command for only seven days each year during the Saturnalia to remind humanity of the egalitarian, labor-free abundance of the Golden Age.^[186][187]

The Historical Chronicle of John Malalas

The sixth-century Byzantine chronicler John Malalas preserved a euhemerised Christian version of Cronus's history.^[188][189] Malalas records that Seth named the five planets: the first he called Cronus (Saturn), the second Zeus (Jupiter), the third Ares (Mars), the fourth Aphrodite (Venus), and the fifth Hermes (Mercury).^[188] Generations later, from the lineage of Noah's eldest son Shem, an Assyrian giant named Cronus appeared, named by his father Damno after the planet.^[189] Cronus became a mighty warrior, invented royal sovereignty, and conquered Persia and Assyria, ruling as a ruthless and feared king.^[189]

Cronus married Semiramis (also known as Rhea), an arrogant woman from the same Semitic lineage.^[189] They had two sons, Pico (named Zeus after the planet) and Ninus, and a daughter named Hera.^[189] Leaving Pico-Zeus and Rhea-Semiramis to govern Assyria, Cronus gathered an army and travelled west into Europe, which was unruled, conquering and settling the western territories.^[190] While in the west, Cronus fathered the philosopher Chiron by Philyra.^[190] After Pico-Zeus had governed Assyria for thirty years, he entrusted the realm to his son Belus and travelled west to rejoin Cronus.^[191] Seeing that his father had become old and infirm, Pico-Zeus received the western kingdom (Italy) from Cronus, ruling there for sixty-two years until Cronus died.^[191]

The Theomachy against Ophion

An independent theogonic myth recorded by Apollonius of Rhodes in the Argonautica relates that before Cronus assumed power, Mount Olympus was ruled by the serpent Ophion and the Oceanid Eurynome.^[192][193] In this account, Cronus wrestled Ophion while Rhea fought Eurynome.^[192][193] After defeating their predecessors through physical strength, Cronus and Rhea cast them down into the waves of Oceanus, establishing their own sovereignty over Olympus and the Titans.^[192][193] The Neoplatonist Damascius describes a cosmic conflict between Cronus's faction and Ophioneus and his offspring, which concluded with a treaty casting Ophioneus into Ogenos (Oceanus) and granting the sky to Cronus.^[194] Pherecydes of Syros similarly reported that Cronus defeated Ophion and was the first god to be crowned.^[195]

Comparative Mythology and Cross-Cultural Syncretism

Scholars have long recognized that the succession myth of Uranus, Cronus, and Zeus closely parallels Hurrian and Hittite mythological texts recovered from Bogazkoy in Anatolia.^{[196][197][198][199]} In the Hurrian Song of Kumarbi, the primeval sky god Anu is challenged by his cupbearer Kumarbi.^{[20][196][200]} When Anu attempts to flee into the sky, Kumarbi bites off and swallows Anu's genitals, rejoicing in his victory.^[196][200] Kumarbi himself later faced the revolt of the next generation of gods, above all Teshub, and lost his supreme position..^[196][201] When Kumarbi attempts to consume or destroy the newborn storm god, he is tricked into swallowing a hard basalt stone instead.^[199][202] In the related Song of Ullikummi, the storm god Teshub uses the ancient cutting tool, described as the sickle with which heaven and earth had originally been separated, to defeat the diorite stone monster Ullikummi.^{[20][200][203][204]} Some scholars hold that these parallels show the castration of the sky with a sickle to have been part of a creation myth in which a cut opened a gap between heaven and earth, and that Near Eastern themes of divine succession reached the Greek world from Anatolia and northern Syria in the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age.^{[205][206][207][208][209]}

Through interpretatio graeca, Greek writers identified Cronus with the Northwest Semitic deity El.^{[29][30][210][211]} This equivalence was documented around 100 AD by Philo of Byblos in his Phoenician History, as preserved by Eusebius in the Praeparatio Evangelica, drawing on the works of Sanchuniathon.^{[212][213][214][215][216]} In this account, Cronus (named Elus or Ilus) was originally a Canaanite king who founded the city of Byblos and was later deified.^{[213][217][218][219][220]} In the thirty-second year of his reign, Elus emasculated, killed and deified his father Epigeius or Autochthon, who was afterwards called Uranus..^{[217][218][219][220]} Philo relates that following the invention of ships, Elus toured the world, granting Attica to his daughter Athena and Egypt to Taautus (Thoth), the inventor of writing.^{[217][218][219][220][221]} Philo also recounts that during a war that was ravaging the country, Elus adorned his only son Yeud (or Ieoud) in royal garments and sacrificed him upon an altar to preserve the city, providing an etiology for Levantine royal human sacrifice.^[222]

In the Western Mediterranean, Greeks identified Cronus with the Carthaginian and Phoenician supreme deity Ba'al Hammon, often associated with biblical Moloch.^{[210][223][224][225]} This association was reinforced by reports of Carthaginian child sacrifices (molk), which Greek observers linked to Cronus devouring his children.^{[223][224][225]} Diodorus Siculus describes the siege of Carthage in 310 BC, when the Carthaginians, believing Cronus was angry because they had stopped offering him children of the noblest families and had secretly substituted purchased children, publicly sacrificed hundreds of children from aristocratic families.^[224] Diodorus provides a description of a colossal bronze statue of Cronus at Carthage whose hands were outstretched with palms sloping downward over a brazier, causing children placed upon them to roll down into a pit of fire.^[226] Plutarch similarly mentions ritual child sacrifice offered to Saturn among the Carthaginians.^[227] In biblical studies, commentators have linked Amos 5:26, which condemns the idolatry of Chiun (Kiyyun), to the Mesopotamian planet-god Kajamanu, equivalent to Saturn and Cronus, with the Talmud referencing the festival of Saturnia.^[228]

In Greco-Roman Egypt, Cronus was equated with the indigenous earth god Geb, because Geb occupied an analogous genealogical position as the father of Osiris, Isis, Seth, and Nephthys.^{[229][230][231]} This syncretism was prominent at the temple town of Tebtunis in the southern Fayyum, where Geb-Cronus was integrated into the local cult of the crocodile god Sobek (worshipped as Soknebtunis).^{[229][231][232]} Iconographically, Geb was depicted with the attributes of Cronus, while Cronus was represented with Egyptian attributes.^{[233][234][235]} In administrative documents, temple priests identified themselves as priests of Soknebtunis-Geb in demotic Egyptian and as priests of Soknebtunis-Cronus in Greek texts.^{[234][236][237]} Personal names derived from Cronus, particularly Kronion, became common among the local population alongside Egyptian names compounded with Geb.^{[236][237][238]}

In late antiquity and Persian contact zones, Cronus was also syncretized with Zurvan, the Zoroastrian personification of infinite time and fate.^[239] Comparative mythologists have drawn parallels with the Mesopotamian deities Ninurta and Enlil, the Slavic deity Rod, and the Hindu figure Balarama or the demon Kroni.^{[9][228][240][241]} According to Robert Graves, researchers have linked the castration of Uranus to a custom among some East African peoples of castrating defeated enemies with sickles, and toothed sickles with stone teeth were probably still used in rituals and ceremonies after bronze and iron tools came into use.^[242]

Cult Practice and Sacred Sites

Unlike the twelve Olympian deities, Cronus received limited public worship in mainland Greece, functioning primarily in cosmology and seasonal harvest festivals.^{[243][244][245]} His primary religious observance was the Kronia (Κρόνια), celebrated in Athens on the twelfth day of the Attic month of Hekatombaion (mid-summer).^{[243][246][247][248][249]} The Kronia commemorated the completion of the grain harvest and celebrated the egalitarian conditions of the Golden Age.^{[80][243][246][250]} During this festival, normal social hierarchies were suspended: slaves were relieved of daily labor, wore festive garments, and dined alongside their masters, who served them at table.^[82][250] Outside Athens, celebrations of the Kronia are attested in Samos, Colophon, Rhodes, and Thebes.^[4]

Sanctuaries dedicated to Cronus were uncommon. In Athens, Pausanias observed a joint temple consecrated to Cronus and Rhea located within the enclosure (peribolos) of the Olympieion, the sanctuary of Olympian Zeus.^[82][245] At Olympia, the hill rising immediately north of the Altis sanctuary was named the Hill of Cronus (Kronios ochthos).^[251][252] On the summit of this hill, at the vernal equinox during the Elean month of Elaphios, magistrates known as the Basilai (kings) offered animal sacrifices to Cronus.^[253][254] A temple dedicated to Cronus stood at Gadir (modern Cadiz in Spain), which was founded by the Phoenicians..

At Delphi, the stone that Cronus had swallowed in place of Zeus was preserved as a sacred object.^{[114][116][255]} This stone was set up in the gorge beneath Mount Parnassus and became the object of daily veneration: priests poured olive oil over it daily and wrapped it in unworked wool bandages during festive days.^[91] This stone was considered to be the omphalos monolith now displayed in the archaeological museum at Delphi..^[46][116]

Scholarly Interpretations

Modern scholars of Greek religion have analysed the figure of Cronus through anthropological and structuralist frameworks. Walter Burkert argues that Cronus is primarily an element in the sequence of divine sovereignties structuring Hesiod's Theogony: Uranus, Cronus, and Zeus.^[197][256] For Burkert, Cronus embodies a stage of political sovereignty maintained through violence directed against the succeeding generation, reflecting a Near Eastern narrative archetype where kingship passes through violent paternal-filial rebellion until Zeus stabilizes cosmic rule without destroying his offspring.^[197][256] Jean-Pierre Vernant interprets Cronus as an intermediate stage in the construction of cosmic order.^[257] While Uranus blocked births by forcing his progeny to remain trapped inside Gaia's womb, Cronus permits birth but immediately reincorporates his offspring into his own body by swallowing them.^[257] His reign represents a sovereignty unable to tolerate generational succession, contrasting with Zeus's cosmos where divine generations coexist within a stable hierarchical framework.^[257]

Marcel Detienne examines Cronus within a symbolic logic of retention and appropriation of the forces of life.^[258] Like Uranus, Cronus prevents the normal circulation of life, but does so by internalizing his offspring, monopolizing fecundity and halting transmission.^[258] The victory of Zeus restores the circulation and exchange necessary for cosmic and civic order.^[258] Karl Kerenyi emphasizes the deep ambivalence of Cronus, noting that his identity as a child-devourer and his role as monarch of the Golden Age are inseparable facets of a primordial reality where boundless fertility and violence coexisted prior to moral differentiation.^[259][260] Mircea Eliade similarly views the reign of Cronus as the mythological memory of primordial perfection, representing a universal nostalgia for an origin free from suffering, labor, and history.^[261] In contrast, Martin P. Nilsson gives more weight to cult than to symbolic readings, regarding Cronus as an ancient deity linked to agriculture and the harvest, as the sickle and the Athenian Kronia suggest, whose figure was later subordinated to the dominance of Zeus in the Olympian pantheon..^[262][263]

Soviet classical philologist Alexey Losev interpreted Cronus and the Titans as mythological personifications of chthonic, all-devouring cosmic forces.^[264] In Losev's formulation, the Titan could not tolerate any independent existence emerging from his own being, swallowing his children because they represented articulation and cosmic structure.^[264] Andrei Lebedev associated Cronus with the philosophical concept of the apeiron (the boundless or infinite), arguing that the god personified the undifferentiated primeval state that must divide itself and release its internal components to establish an ordered cosmos.^[265]

Cultural Legacy and Modern Depictions

Through his Roman counterpart Saturn, Cronus exerted an enduring influence on Western culture and calendar systems.^{[145][177][248][266]} In ancient Rome, the Temple of Saturn at the foot of the Capitoline Hill was one of the earliest temples founded in the Forum Romanum, serving as the repository for the state treasury (aerarium).^[267] The Latin designation for the seventh day of the week, Dies Saturni (Day of Saturn), became the etymological root of the English word Saturday.^[177][266] In astronomy, the planet Saturn, the outermost planet visible to the naked eye, preserves the god's name, and it is still called Kronos (Κρόνος) in modern Greek.^{[177][268][269]} In 2017, the star HD 240430 was nicknamed Kronos after it was reported to have swallowed its planets; it forms a binary system with HD 240429, which was named Krios.^{[268][270][271]} The astronomer Thomas Jefferson Jackson See proposed Cronus as a name for the dwarf planet Pluto, but the name was rejected..^[272]

In the visual arts, ancient representations depicted Cronus as an elderly bearded king holding a curved harvesting tool or sceptre, often with his head veiled.^[44][273] During the early modern era, two famous paintings dramatised the swallowing of his offspring. Peter Paul Rubens produced Saturn (1636), depicting the god tearing into the chest of an infant, now in the Museo del Prado.^[177][274] Francisco de Goya created Saturn Devouring His Son (1819–1823) as part of his Black Paintings, showing a frenzied, wide-eyed titan consuming the body of an adult child, also held in the Museo del Prado.^[274]

In modern literature and popular media, Cronus appears as an antagonist. In Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, Kronos is the main antagonist, who seeks to free himself from his imprisonment in Tartarus in order to destroy the gods.. He features in the television series Stargate SG-1 as a Goa'uld System Lord named Cronus. He appears as an antagonist in video games, including God of War III, Age of Mythology, and Hades II, and in the anime series Saint Seiya Episode G.^[275] The idea of Cronus is sometimes used as a metaphor for conditions that prevent something from developing, comparing the obstacles to starting a project with the way Cronus devoured his children..

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92. Diodorus Siculus 지음, C. H. Oldfather 영역 1935, 《Library of History》 5.70절. 제우스의 탄생지와 양육지 "BIRTH OF ZEUS [5.70.1] Regarding the birth of Zeus and the manner in which he came to be king, there is no agreement. Some say that he succeeded to the kingship after Cronus passed from among men into the company of the gods, not by overcoming his father with violence, but in the manner prescribed by custom and justly, having been judged worthy of that honour. But others recount a myth which runs as follows: There was delivered to Cronus an oracle regarding the birth of Zeus which stated that the son who would be born to him would wrest the kingship from him by force. [5.70.2] Consequently Cronus time and again did away with the children whom he begot; but Rhea, grieved as she was, and yet lacking the power to change her husband’s purpose, when she had given birth to Zeus, concealed him in Idê, as it is called, and, without the knowledge of Cronus, entrusted the rearing of him to the Curetes who dwelt in the neighbourhood of Mount Idê. The Curetes bore him off to a certain cave where they gave him over to the Nymphs, with the command that they should minister to his every need. [5.70.3] And the Nymphs nurtured the child on a mixture of honey and milk and gave him upbringing at the udder of the goat which was named Amaltheia. And many evidences o the birth and upbringing of this god remain to this day on the island. [5.70.4] For instance, when he was being carried away, while still an infant, by the Curetes, they say that the umbilical cord (omphalos) fell from him near the river known as Triton, and that this spot has been made sacred and has been called Omphalus after that incident, while in like manner the plain about it is known as Omphaleium. And on Mount Idê, where the god was nurtured, both the cave in which he spent his days has been made sacred to him, and the meadows round about it, which lie upon the ridges of the mountain., have in like manner been consecrated to him. [5.70.5] But the most astonishing of all that which the myth relates has to do with the bees, and we should not omit to mention it: The god, they say, wishing to preserve an immortal memorial of his close association with the bees, changed the colour of them, making it like copper with the gleam of gold, and since the region lay at a very great altitude, where fierce winds blew about it and heavy snows fell, he made the bees insensible to such things and unaffected by them, since they must range over the most wintry stretches. [5.70.6] To the goat (aeg-) which suckled him Zeus also accorded certain honours, and in particular took from it a surname, being called Aegiochus.33) And when he had attained to manhood he founded a city in Dicta, where indeed the myth states that he was born; in later times this city was abandoned, but some stone blocks of its foundations are still preserved. 33) “Aegis-bearing,” a common epithet of Zeus, from aegis (“goat-skin”)." sfn 오류: 대상 없음: CITEREFDiodorus_Siculus_지음,_C._H._Oldfather_영역1935 (도움말)
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95. De Astronomica II, 43
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102. Sider, David (2017). Hellenistic Poetry: A Selection. University of Michigan Press. p. 118. ISBN 9780472053131.
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105. Oppian, The Chase 3.7
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115. Teogonía 492-506
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117. Apollodoros, Bibliotheka, Kitap I.
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119. (EN) Esiodo, Teogonia, 617, su topostext.org. URL consultato il 12 agosto 2026.
120. Hesiod 1914, Theogony 721–745. (Hesiod، Hugh G. Evelyn-White (trans.) (۱۹۱۴). Theogony. Harvard University Press.)
121. Teogonía, 620-720
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124. Homer 지음, A. T. Murray 영역 1924, 《Iliad》 제15권 184~199행. 세계의 지배권의 분할 "[184] Then, stirred to hot anger, the glorious Shaker of Earth spake unto her: "Out upon it, verily strong though he be he hath spoken overweeningly, if in sooth by force and in mine own despite he will restrain me that am of like honour with himself. For three brethren are we, begotten of Cronos, and born of Rhea,—Zeus, and myself, and the third is Hades, that is lord of the dead below. And in three-fold wise are all things divided, and unto each hath been apportioned his own domain. I verily, when the lots were shaken, won for my portion the grey sea to be my habitation for ever, and Hades won the murky darkness, while Zeus won the broad heaven amid the air and the clouds; but the earth and high Olympus remain yet common to us all. Wherefore will I not in any wise walk after the will of Zeus; nay in quiet let him abide in his third portion, how strong soever he be. And with might of hand let him not seek to affright me, as though I were some coward. His daughters and his sons were it better for him to threaten with blustering words, even them that himself begat, who perforce will hearken to whatsoever he may bid."" sfn 오류: 대상 없음: CITEREFHomer_지음,_A._T._Murray_영역1924 (도움말)
125. Plato 지음, Benjamin Jowett 영역 1871, 《Gorgias》. 세계의 지배권의 분할 "Soc. Listen, then, as story-tellers say, to a very pretty tale, which I dare say that you may be disposed to regard as a fable only, but which, as I believe, is a true tale, for I mean to speak the truth. Homer tells us (Il.), how Zeus and Poseidon and Pluto divided the empire which they inherited from their father. Now in the days of Cronos there existed a law respecting the destiny of man, which has always been, and still continues to be in Heaven,—that he who has lived all his life in justice and holiness shall go, when he is dead, to the Islands of the Blessed, and dwell there in perfect happiness out of the reach of evil; but that he who has lived unjustly and impiously shall go to the house of vengeance and punishment, which is called Tartarus. And in the time of Cronos, and even quite lately in the reign of Zeus, the judgment was given on the very day on which the men were to die; the judges were alive, and the men were alive; and the consequence was that the judgments were not well given. Then Pluto and the authorities from the Islands of the Blessed came to Zeus, and said that the souls found their way to the wrong places. Zeus said: 'I shall put a stop to this; the judgments are not well given, because the persons who are judged have their clothes on, for they are alive; and there are many who, having evil souls, are apparelled in fair bodies, or encased in wealth or rank, and, when the day of judgment arrives, numerous witnesses come forward and testify on their behalf that they have lived righteously. The judges are awed by them, and they themselves too have their clothes on when judging; their eyes and ears and their whole bodies are interposed as a veil before their own souls. All this is a hindrance to them; there are the clothes of the judges and the clothes of the judged.—What is to be done? I will tell you:—In the first place, I will deprive men of the foreknowledge of death, which they possess at present: this power which they have Prometheus has already received my orders to take from them: in the second place, they shall be entirely stripped before they are judged, for they shall be judged when they are dead; and the judge too shall be naked, that is to say, dead—he with his naked soul shall pierce into the other naked souls; and they shall die suddenly and be deprived of all their kindred, and leave their brave attire strewn upon the earth—conducted in this manner, the judgment will be just. I knew all about the matter before any of you, and therefore I have made my sons judges; two from Asia, Minos and Rhadamanthus, and one from Europe, Aeacus. And these, when they are dead, shall give judgment in the meadow at the parting of the ways, whence the two roads lead, one to the Islands of the Blessed, and the other to Tartarus. Rhadamanthus shall judge those who come from Asia, and Aeacus those who come from Europe. And to Minos I shall give the primacy, and he shall hold a court of appeal, in case either of the two others are in any doubt:—then the judgment respecting the last journey of men will be as just as possible.'" sfn 오류: 대상 없음: CITEREFPlato_지음,_Benjamin_Jowett_영역1871 (도움말)
126. Hesiod 1914, Theogony 713–735. (Hesiod، Hugh G. Evelyn-White (trans.) (۱۹۱۴). Theogony. Harvard University Press.)
127. Homer 1924, Iliad 8.478–481. (Homer، A. T. Murray (trans.) (۱۹۲۴). The Iliad. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.)
128. Gantz, p. 46; Burkert 1985, p. 221; West 1966, p. 358.
129. Ilíada xiv.274, xv.225; Teogonía 850 y sig.
130. Gantz, pp. 46–48.
131. West 1978, pp. 372–373.
132. (EN) Pindaro, Olimpica, II, 50, su topostext.org. URL consultato l'11 agosto 2026.
133. Hesiod, Works and Days 173a-c.
134. Gantz, pp. 46–47; West 1988, p. 76, note to line 173; West 1978, pp. 194–196, on lines 173a–e.
135. Hesiod, Works and Days 156ff
136. Esta variante mítica es, al menos, posterior a Hesíodo. Cf. MAZON, Paul (1928). Hésiode Théogonie; Les travaux et les jours; Le bouclier. París: Les Belles Lettres. p. 92, n. 1. OCLC 58772577. Desde el punto de vista de la transmisión, el pasaje solo está presente en papiros, y ya Proclo los consideró espurios. Cf. VIANELLO DE CÓRDOVA, Paola (1979). Trabajos y días. UNAM. p. CLXVI nota 173a–e. OCLC 14124363. ) Verdenius los considera también como interpolación. Cf. VERDENIUS, W. J. (1985). A Commentary on Hesiod: Works and Days, vv. 1–382. Leiden: E. J. Brill. p. 103 com. a 169. ISBN 9789004074651. Paul Mazon (1873 - 1955): helenista francés. Le bouclier: El escudo de Heracles. Les Belles Lettres: editorial francesa fundada en 1919 y dedicada a la literatura y a la humanística. Willem Jacob Verdenius (1913 - 1998): clasicista neerlandés. | //www.worldcat.org/oclc/58772577
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142. Rose, H. J. (2 August 2004). A Handbook of Greek Mythology. Routledge. p. 36. ISBN 978-0-415-18636-0.
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160. Enciclopedia Suda voz "Aphroi"
161. Para Thomas Keightley (The Mythology of Ancient Greece and Italy, p.69; 1838) y más recientemente Károly Kerényi, Evónime (Εὐωνύμη) no es más que una grafía corrupta desde la antigüedad, de la oceánide Eurínome. No obstante no todos los expertos están de acuerdo. Por ejemplo Hermann Steuding voz «Euonyme». En Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher: Ausführliches Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie. Band 1,1, Leipzig 1886, nos dicen que de Evónime (Gea) y Skotos nacieron las erinias. Evónime se trata de Gea solo en en ese contexto (escolio a Sófocles, Edipo en Colono, 42).
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211. «Filón, que por supuesto consideraba a Kronos una divinidad helénica, en lo que de hecho se convirtió, siempre traduce el nombre del dios semítico Îl o Êl (‘el Poderoso’) como ‘Kronos’, uso en el que tenemos un persistente indicio del auténtico significado del nombre.» Brown (1898) pág. 116.
212. Walcot, "Five or Seven Recesses?", The Classical Quarterly, New Series, 15.1 (May 1965), p. 79. The quote stands as Philo, Fr. 2.
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