MYTH - CRONOS
Cronos, son of Uranus and Gaia, was among the first twelve most important and primary children of the couple.
In that time there were no limits on the creation and not to use the earth's resources.
The company lived in a primitive kind of paradise of archetypes where time was recorded only biologically, without permission to turn into history. However, the need for a periodic regeneration in those companies promoted the creation of gods destroy that marked the beginning of new cycles. This was the case of Kronos, the god of Time, which regulates everything and controls everything.
He was creating a new order in the air and on things, constantly revolutionize the nature, changing the stage of life and drawing his own father.
Gaia, disgusted with the incessant fertilization and the imprisonment imposed by the Cyclops and Uranus Hecat?nquiros, asked for help to all their children to run their revenge against Uranus.
But everyone was scared, just Cronos was prepared to help her.
So, faced Cronos, Castro and won his own father, separating the sky from Earth. The separation of Heaven and Earth was essential for the organization of chaos.
Cronos was insatiable.
The time that devours everything: beings, times, destinations, without attachment to now, his goal was to build the future and continue, without fear and like the mountain goat, their relentless journey. Promoted the ordination of Chaos, imposing the law, order and discipline, founding a New Era: The Age of Gold of Cronos. In his reign there was equality and justice for all.
Cronos is married to your sister and she Rhea had six children. Fearful that the prophecy to be uncrowned by one of his sons was fulfilled, he began to devour their children as they went up. So did to Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades and Poseidon. The one who escaped was Zeus.
Zeus, adult, he returned to fulfill the prophecy of winning the father and take his place. With the help of Rhea, gave Kronos a magic potion that it did throw up all the children swallowed. The brothers, thankful, made of Zeus and supported their leader in the war against the father. Beaten, Cronos was sentenced to live among mortals on Earth.
Tell that to Roman legend, having been uncrowned by Zeus, Cronos refuge in the Ausone, a former poetic name of Italy. There was the name of Saturn and established its Golden Age. Assuming the post of Saturnus, ancient god italics, assimilated attributes of their god of sowing and vegetation. Thus, Saturn has become a hero civilizing, who taught the cultivation of the land, and bring peace and justice.
To commemorate this paradisiacal state and obtain the approval of the god on the seeding and vegetation, were celebrated the Saturnalia. There was a public banquet and everything stopped: the Senate, the courts, schools, work. The joy reigned, the orgy and freedom. Breaking up the hierarchy of Roman society and proud until the slaves were, temporarily, released and served by their masters.
Saturn was a god who inspired fear and at the same time, admiration. Here is a prayer to Saturn, writing in the X century, "the master of sublime name and great knowledge, Supreme Master, Master Saturn: You, the Frio, the sterile, the murky, the Pernicious; You, whose life is sincere and whose word is right; You, the Wise, the Solitaire, the Impervious; Tu, whose promises are fulfilled; You, you're weak and tired; You, who have greater care than any other, and do not know neither the pleasure nor the joy ; You, old and cunning, master of all artifacts, misleading, wise and judicious; You, which bring prosperity or the ruin, and making men happy or unhappy! Spell Thee, O Father supreme, for Thy great kindness and Your generous support, to do for me what I ask. "