Cronus is the father of Zeus. Cronus swallowed his own children. But Rhea saved Zeus and hid him from Cronus so he wouldn't swallow him. Rhea gave cronus a rock wrapped in cloth instead of Zeus so Cronus swallowed the rock.
rhea wrapped a bunch of rocks in a cloth and gave it to Cronus who swallowed it. Gaia, Cronus' mother had foretold that one of his children would overthrow him, to prevent that from happening, he swallowed all his children.
He swallowed his children because he feared that they would become more powerful than him, and kill him Zeus managed to escape because his mother exchanged him for a rock, and then he became more powerful and killed him, releasing all of the other children that he swallowed.
Kronos had heard a prophecy that one day his own child would overthrow him, so he swallowed all his children as soon as they were born. When the sixth child, Zeus, was born, his mother Rhea wrapped a stone in swaddling blankets and, pretending it was Zeus, she gave it to Kronos. He swallowed it. Zeus grew up and when he was old enough he disguised himself as one of Cronus' servants. Once Cronus asked Zeus for a drink. He mixed some kind of poison in it and Cronus coughed up Zeus' siblings.
Zeus was a supreme ruler of Mount Olympus and the Pathenon of gods. In Greek mythology Kronos the Titan had 5 children - Poseidon, Hades, Hestia, Hera and Demeter and , because he was told one of his children would kill him, swallowed each of them. When his sixth child Zeus was born, Kronos' wife, Rhea, wrapped a stone in cloth and he swallowed that instead, thinking it was Zeus. Zeus then forced Kronos to regurgitate his five brothers and sisters.
I know this sounds unrealistic but, he swallowed them! The feared that one of his children would grow up to overthrow him so he swallowed them!
Cronus is the father of Zeus. Cronus swallowed his own children. But Rhea saved Zeus and hid him from Cronus so he wouldn't swallow him. Rhea gave cronus a rock wrapped in cloth instead of Zeus so Cronus swallowed the rock.
Kronos, who was actually a Titan, swallowed his children after hearing a prophecy that his offspring would one day overpower him.
Cronus had been warned that one of his children would depose him.To prevent this from happening Cronus swallowed his newborn children Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades and Poseidon, but his wife Rhea wrapped a stone in swaddling clothes in place of the infant Zeus. Cronus thinking it was the newborn baby swallowed the stone. Meanwhile Rhea had her baby taken to Crete to be raised by some nymphs. When Zeus had grown into a young man he forced Cronus to vomit the five children he had previously swallowed. Then Zeus led the revolt against his father and the dynasty of the Titans, defeated and then banished them.
Cronus!
Cronus; and Zeus swallowed Metis and thus Athena was born of his head - Aura also swallowed her child.
Of course not. It has the same effects if you swallowed your own hair!
rhea wrapped a bunch of rocks in a cloth and gave it to Cronus who swallowed it. Gaia, Cronus' mother had foretold that one of his children would overthrow him, to prevent that from happening, he swallowed all his children.
Cronos, padre de zeus
because he swallowed his children
Zeus's dad
Zeus' father, Cronus, was told by Gaea, that one of his children would overthrow him, like Cronus did to his father. To avoid this Cronus swallowed his children that Rhea (his wife) gave birth to. Rhea wrapped baby Zeus in swaddling clothes and handed him to Cronus, who swallowed the stone. She took the baby to a goat who already had a half human half goat child named Pan.