Kronos/Cronus/Chronos/Saturn

<h3>Antiquity</h3>

During antiquity, Cronus was occasionally interpreted as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronos" title="Chronos">Chronos</a>, the personification of time.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cronus#cite_note-perseus.tufts-6">[6]</a> The Greek historian and biographer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutarch" title="Plutarch">Plutarch</a> (1st century CE) asserted that the Greeks believed that Cronus was an allegorical name for χρόνος (time).<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cronus#cite_note-7">[7]</a> The Roman philosopher <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicero" title="Cicero">Cicero</a> (1st C BCE) elaborated on this by saying that the Greek name Kronos is synonymous to chronos (time) since he maintains the course and cycles of seasons and the periods of time, whereas the Latin name <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn%28mythology%29" title="Saturn (mythology)">Saturn</a> denotes that he is saturated with years since he was devouring his sons, which implies that time devours the ages and gorges.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cronus#cite_note-8">[8]</a> The philosopher <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato" title="Plato">Plato</a> in his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cratylus%28dialogue%29" title="Cratylus (dialogue)">Cratylus</a> (3rd C BCE) gives two possible interpretations for the name of Cronus. The first is that his name denotes "κόρος" (koros), the pure (<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%BA%CE%B1%CE%B8%CE%B1%CF%81%CF%8C%CF%82" class="extiw" title="wikt:καθαρός">καθαρόν</a>) and unblemished (ἀκήρατον)<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cronus#cite_note-9">[9]</a> nature of his mind.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cronus#cite_note-10">[10]</a> The second is that Rhea and Cronus were given names of streams (Rhea – ῥοή (rhoē) and Cronus – Xρόνος (chronos)).<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cronus#cite_note-11">[11]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proclus" title="Proclus">Proclus</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoplatonist" class="mw-redirect" title="Neoplatonist">Neoplatonist</a> philosopher, makes in his Commentary on Plato's Cratylus an extensive analysis on Cronus; among others he says that the "One cause" of all things is "Chronos" (time) that is also equivocal to Cronus.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cronus#cite_note-12">[12]</a> In addition to the name, the story of Cronus eating his children was also interpreted as an allegory to a specific aspect of time held within Cronus' sphere of influence. As the theory went, Cronus represented the destructive ravages of time which devoured all things, a concept that was definitely illustrated when the Titan king ate the Olympian gods — the past consuming the future, the older generation suppressing the next generation.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cronus#cite_note-13">[13]</a>

"Anyone who reads history knows that various writers in various countries spell names differently. These names all refer to the same false god - Melech, Mo-lech, Milcom, Melkom, Moloch, Molek, Malec, Malik, Melek, Malkum, Melqart, Melkart, Milk, Melqarth, Kronos, Cronus. In Islam, Mo-lech is called Malec or Malik (meaning King), believed to be the principle angel in charge of Djahannam, the Islamic version of hell.

That Molech worship was already common among the Canaanites when Israel entered the land is evident from the fact that, before Israel entered the land, God warned them against Molech worship as an abomination the Israelites were forbidden to practice, Leviticus 18:21, 20:2, 3, 4, 5. Fire gods like Moloch and his fertility goddess consort, Ashtoreth, were not religious fantasies. They exercised a very real power over the primitive Canaanites. And their pagan worship snared some of the children of Israel."

Greek: Κρόνος (Kronos) ->Greek Romanized: Cronus -> Roman: Saturnus -> Roman Anglicized: Saturn -> Etruscan: Satre ->Egyptian: Osiris

"Antiquity Edit

During antiquity, Cronus was occasionally interpreted as Chronos, the personification of time.[6] The Greek historian and biographer Plutarch (1st century CE) asserted that the Greeks believed that Cronus was an allegorical name for χρόνος (time).[7] The Roman philosopher Cicero (1st C BCE) elaborated on this by saying that the Greek name Kronos is synonymous to chronos (time) since he maintains the course and cycles of seasons and the periods of time, whereas the Latin name Saturn denotes that he is saturated with years since he was devouring his sons, which implies that time devours the ages and gorges.[8] The philosopher Plato in his Cratylus (3rd C BCE) gives two possible interpretations for the name of Cronus. The first is that his name denotes "κόρος" (koros), the pure (καθαρόν) and unblemished (ἀκήρατον)[9] nature of his mind.[10] The second is that Rhea and Cronus were given names of streams (Rhea – ῥοή (rhoē) and Cronus – Xρόνος (chronos)).[11] Proclus, the Neoplatonist philosopher, makes in his Commentary on Plato's Cratylus an extensive analysis on Cronus; among others he says that the "One cause" of all things is "Chronos" (time) that is also equivocal to Cronus.[12] In addition to the name, the story of Cronus eating his children was also interpreted as an allegory to a specific aspect of time held within Cronus' sphere of influence. As the theory went, Cronus represented the destructive ravages of time which devoured all things, a concept that was definitely illustrated when the Titan king ate the Olympian gods — the past consuming the future, the older generation suppressing the next generation"

Mythology

In the Orphic tradition, the unaging Chronos was "engendered" by "earth and water", and produced Aether and Chaos, and an egg.[7] It produced the hermaphroditic god Phanes who gave birth to the first generation of gods and is the ultimate creator of the cosmos.

Pherecydes of Syros in his lost Heptamychos (the seven recesses), around 6th century BC, claimed that there were three eternal principles: Chronos, Zas (Zeus) and Chthonie (the chthonic). The semen of Chronos was placed in the recesses and produced the first generation of gods.[8]

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