SATURNUS
knows how to deal with bad children
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Didn’t Uranus deal with children too?
Wasn’t that Chronos devouring his children? (meaning, time always takes back what it gives)
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Saturnus/Saturn is the Roman name for Cronos.
No, Saturnus is the Roman equivalent of Kronos.
Same thing. >.>
it’s actually Cronus not Cronos or Chronos or Saturnus
Actually, it’s Chronos devouring his children because of the prophecy that one of them would grow up to overthrow him.
Not everything is meant symbolically, not even in Rubens.
So technically the caption is on the right track.
I think this is Goya, not Reubens. I could be wrong. They may have both painted the subject matter.
it is Rubens, said to may have been inspired by Goya. It’s rather common that Greek/Roman mythology is used as a subject matter by more than just one artist.
sorry, other way round, Rubens first, Goya plagiarism
Kronos, or Cronos, not Chronos. His name is unrelated to the word for time. The conflation of Kronos with “chronos”, time, based solely on the similarity of the words as they later came to be pronounced, long postdated the myths and can have nothing to do with such absurd (and patently untrue) symbolism.
The Romans identified him with their own Saturnus, although they weren’t greatly similar other than being associated with a sickle. (Saturnus was an agricultural god. Kronos the Titan, on the other hand, used a sickle to castrate his father.) The Kronos myths thus became attached to Saturnus.
Cronos eats his children because a prophecy said one of his children will overthrow him, his last son Zeus isn’t devoured because Crono’s wife fools him and Zeus is raised by Gaya, and when Zeus grows up he frees his brother’s from Crono’s belly and wages a war on the Titans, but before Zeus is about to end this war with his most powerful weapon………….KRATOS GOD OF WAR comes back in time and teleports Gaya and all the Titans into the future where they wage their War on Olympus and all the Gods using the “Blade of Olympus”!!!!!!
Gaia*
Besides, Chronos is one of the primordial Greek gods. Think about them as the first-generation gods, then the second generation where Cronos belongs, and the third generation, well, have Zeus…
Uranus was 1st gen.
All the rest of the gens sucked.
*facepalm*
*Cronos, god of Harvest and king of the Titans.
Often confused with the more widely known primordial god of tome, Chronos.
That’d be *time actually, sorry for making an arse of myself!
Yes, it was about to eat Zeus but he got saved, and when he became of age he overthrew his father and became the ruling god…
So yeah what about that dingo?
That doesn’t seem like a healthy diet
That’s horrible… Just imagine where that child has been. You need to give it a good wash first or you’ll get food poisoning.
that’s Kronos
I’m pretty sure Saturnus is the Roman version of Kronos (which is Greek).
He’s correcting the author for originality’s sake. Good for him.
I guess Saturnus (or cronos) is a symbol of pedophiles
Then why his garment is about to fall from his waist?
Your stupidity makes me want to punch you!
It’s Kronos, you ignorant b**ch! Kronos was told that one of his children would rise up and strike him down. So in order to keep his throne, he devoured all of his children. Rhea having seen this horror, gave baby Zeus to Gaia, the titan of Earth, and she hid him in a cave until he was old enough to get revenge on his father.
Thank you my friend
YHBT
Your stupidity makes me want to punch you!
How F’ed up and rad would it be to have this painting above your fireplace?
You’d need a huge fireplace. The original Goya version is wall sized.
He put it above his dining room table…. I love that guy.
Irrelevant, considering this is by Peter Paul Rubens. It was probably the inspiration for Goya’s painting, which is far bleaker and grittier, and which I personally like better.
I ate a baybe!
I want my baby back baby back baby back. Baybe back ribs.
Didn’t he swallow them whole though? They did live in his stomach for a while before Zues grew up and made daddy barf up his siblings.
Also, that’s probably Hades getting eaten, to which I say, D’AWWWWWW
So allow me to explain to you the symbolism behind Kronos eating his children:
He represents time. His children are human beings. Eating his children means that time will catch up to you and run you over, sooner or later. No one escapes time, we’re all ephemeral compared to him. It was well put in a story about a son that would overthrow him, Zeus, who was to be eternal, just like his father Kronos. Therefore, Kronos ate all his children (and keeps eating them even now), while Zeus still reigns the skies (weather). Gods never die. They just get reborn in a different shape and keep living through another symbolic anecdote.
Thanks for reading this.
You are ALL wrong… That is Fat Bastard after his stomach surgery… “I ate a baby”!
Mmmmm, baby….the other, other white meat! I want my baby back, baby back, baby back…..ribs.
That face doesn’t look like of a baby.
english class has never be more awesome
pedo bear …. the early years …
^^THIS +9
This kid took a cookie from the cookie jar.
Big freaking mistake
Titans: Easily fooled by stones.