Identifier: manualofmythology00murr (find matches)
Title: Manual of mythology : Greek and Roman, Norse, and old German, Hindoo and Egyptian mythology
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Murray, A. S. (Alexander Stuart), 1841-1904
Subjects: Mythology
Publisher: New York : Scribner, Armstrong
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Kronos.
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Rhea. KRONOS. 29 K R O N O S, (plate I.,) The ripencr, the harvest god, was, as we have already re-marked, a son of Uranos. That he continued for a long timeto be identified with the Roman deity, Saturnus, is a mis-take which recent research has set right, and accordingly weshall devote a separate chapter to each. Uranos, deposedfrom the throne of the gods, was succeeded by Kronos, whomarried his own sister Rhea, a daughter of Gaea, who borehim Pluto, Poseidon (Neptune), and Zeus (Jupiter),Hestia (Vesta), Demeter (Ceres), and Hera (Juno). Toprevent the fulfilment of a prophecy Svhich had been commu-nicated to him by his parents, that, like his father, he toowould be dethroned by his youngest born, Kronos swallowedhis first five children apparently as each came into the world.But when the sixth child appeared, Rhea, his wife, determinedto save it, and succeeded in duping her husband by givinghim a stone (perhaps rudely hewn intc? the figure of an infant)wrapped in swaddling clothes, wh

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