because cronus killed his father to become ruler. He was afraid one of his kids might do the same and try to kill him, which was the case. Zeus later killed Cronus and became ruler of mount olympus.
No, Cronus did not swallow Zeus. His mother, Rhea, hid him away and gave Cronus a wrapped stone instead.
Why did cronus swallow his children? Let ME explain this better. Cronus was told that the next son he would have would kill him and rule the gods. So, cronus ate his 5 children. But his wife hid the last child and gave cronus a rock instead of Zues and when he was old enough he had metis create a potion that would make cronus spit up the children he had swallowed. After the gods/godesses were out of cronus they all fought him. The titans helped cronus. The ttans were sent to tartarus where they would be punished forever and Cronus was killed.
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.
stick his finger down his throat. gross i know.
Cronus, Kronus or Kronus and Rhea, his sister, were said to have lived on Mount Titanos with the rest of the Titans. The peak of Mount Titanos was the one facing Mount Olympus, were the twelve Olympins lived. Although Cronus and Rhea and the Titans did not stay there for long, because when Zeus was older he freed his uncles and won the war against the Titans and the Olympians, Zeus then threw them into tartarus where they spent the rest of their life. So in the end Cronus, Rhea and the Titans did not stay there for long. Although in some Greek Mythology they say Cronus escaped and rod of to Rome where he was known as SATURN.
No, Cronus did not swallow Zeus. His mother, Rhea, hid him away and gave Cronus a wrapped stone instead.
Why did cronus swallow his children? Let ME explain this better. Cronus was told that the next son he would have would kill him and rule the gods. So, cronus ate his 5 children. But his wife hid the last child and gave cronus a rock instead of Zues and when he was old enough he had metis create a potion that would make cronus spit up the children he had swallowed. After the gods/godesses were out of cronus they all fought him. The titans helped cronus. The ttans were sent to tartarus where they would be punished forever and Cronus was killed.
He swallowed 5 of his 6 kids: poseidon was one of 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.
As soon as they were born.
Chronos did not swallow any gods. Cronus swallowed Demeter, Hestia, Hera, Poseidon and Hades before Zeus and Metis tricked him into releasing them.
When Rhea had Zeus she realized that she could not let Cronus swallow him too. She went to her mother Gaea who gave her a plan. She would rap a rock in swaddling clothes instead of Zeus that way when she presented baby Zeus to her husband Cronus he would swallow the rock instead of Zeus. Rhea gave Zeus to her mother Gaea who raised him.
There was a prophecy that one of them would overthrow him.
Cronus, the father of Zeus, wanted to swallow him at birth. Zeus took a grudge to this.
The nurse, sometimes the nurse was Zeus's mother Rhea, wrapped a stone in a blanket and gave that to Cronus to swallow. She then gave the baby Zeus to some nymphs to raise.
Cronus was married to Rhea(earth) and had 6 children. For sons he had Zeus, Posiedon, and Hades. For daughters he had Hera, Demeter, and Hestia.
Zeus saved his brothers and sisters from Cronus who had swallowed them. Zeus had been saved by his mom and spirited away to a cave to grow up. She gave Cronus a stone to swallow instead. Uranus hated his children. Zeus can be said to persuade people to follow him instead of overpowering them like Cronus and Uranus did.