What is Cronos officially the Titan of?

Question

I need an intelligent awnser please. i am doing a speech on him.

Answer 1

its spelled kronos

and i think hes just like the titan of all titans or sumthin

try googlin it

Answer 2

Cronos or Kronos or Cronus or Kronus are all eqally valid English transliterations of the Geek, depending on what system you are using. The -us ending indicates a Latinized transliteration. An intitial “C” also indicates Latin influence.

Cronos was not officially the Titan of anything in particular in surviving texts. He was the father of Zeus and often called “crooked-counselling”. So if you want to claim he was the god of “crooked conselling”, I suppose you can have that to support your case.

It was a late philosophical allegory that Cronos was “really” khronos ‘time’ who devours what he brings forth. Rather cute, but not to any real point.

At least by the latter half of the 4th century BCE there was a common belief that Zeus had eventually released Cronos and had placed him as ruler over the Fortunate Isles where the blessed dead dwelt. Pindar first mentions this, in material that has come down to us, in his second Olympian ode. A statement to the same effect in some versions of Hesiod’s “Theogony” is usually taken as later insertion.

Cronos was identified with Saturnus (Anglicized as Saturn), an Italian harvest god. Supposedly Cronos fled to Italy following his defeat by Zeus and the Golden Age continued there for a time under his rule. Saturn is a vague figure, and texts describing him seem to be more influenced by tales of Cronos then by anything known about the traditional Saturn.

Phoenician mythology had two high gods, one named  ÃƒÂ¢Ã‚€Â™Ã„Â’l and a storm god named Hadad. Hadad, as a storm god, was identified with Zeus, and ’Ēl with Cronos, though Hadad is more often son of the dog Dagôn rather than ’Ēl. Both gods seem to have been almost universally worshiped among the West Smites. In the Bible ’Ēl, with one or another epithets, is one of the names of God. Hadad is usually known as Ba‘al ‘Lord’. ’Ēl is the god of the seventh day, the Sabbath day, connected to the planet Saturn. The planetary connection probably came into classical culture from the east.

Such stories as we have from West Semitic mythologies often stress the conflict between ’Ēl and  Ba‘al Hadad, between Cronos and Zeus. See http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/lofts/2938... for tales of the West Semitic Ba‘al. For an account telling more about ’Ēl/Cronos, see http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/af/af01.... . Hadad here appears as Demarous, which is probably a corruption of the name Hadad Rimmôn who is mentioned in the Bible. Some of the relationships between these gods and supported by other surviving Phoencian texts. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanchuniath... .

In Egyptian mythology Cronos was identified with Geb, god of the Earth and Rhea was Nut, goddess of the sky. Their children were Osiris (Dionysus), Isis (Demeter), Set (Typhoeus), Nephthys, and Horus the elder.

Answer 3

Time

That's why so many workplaces use timeclocks made by the brand cleverly named "Kronos."

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Paul's answer appears to be rooted in much more research and understanding than mine.

Answer 4

Created the universe and controls time.

Answer 5

Kronos in Greek.

Son of Uranus (Ouranos in Greek), the first king of the gods, which makes him second king of the gods.  He castrated his father with a sickle and banished him.  Kronos is the father of Zeus, and yes he was a Titan.  He swallowed all of the Olympians except for Zeus, who was saved by his mother, and Zeus later overthrew him with the help of the other Olympians in an epic battle.  Kronos himself was banished by Zeus.

He was not the god of time.  The Greek word for time is "Khronos" (spelled differently in Greek), which lead to his identification with time and later on with the figure "Father time", but this was a mistake based on the similar sounding works being linked when there was probably originally no link between them.

He was a harvest god, called Saturn by the Romans, and thereby was associated with the sickle.  Combine this with the misrepresentation of him with the word time, and you've got the origins of Father Time and the Grim Reaper.  

Hope this helps.