Cronus is a 6 letter English word.
You can make 100 anagrams from letters in Cronus (cnorsu).
The sickle of Cronus is thus brought into connection with the sickle of the harvester.
Demeter (from Ge-meter, earth-mother) was the daughter of Cronus and Rhea.
The stone which Cronus swallowed in mistake for Zeus was honoured at Delphi, and kept warm with wool wrappings.
We shall apply the same explanation to the Greek myth of Gaea and of the mutilation of Cronus.
Cronus was the god of time in its sense of eternal duration.
Cronus, the head of the dynasty which preceded that of Zeus, is described as the son of Rhea, but nothing is said of his father.
Besides, the myth of the swallowing is not confined to Cronus.
Cronus is a more than usually troublesome crux to the etymologists.
Let us now examine the myth of Cronus, and the explanations which have been given by scholars.
But how did the sons of Cronus come to have his property in their hands to divide?