Monday, June 28, 2010

Poseidon's Birth and Poseidon's Father Cronus


Painting by Peter Paul Rubens of Cronus devouring one of his children, Poseidon
Source:Wikipeadia

Coronus,Poseidon's father was jealous because his father Uranus had power to rule the universe.Uranus displeased Coronus mother Gaia,because he hid creatures she born in Tatarus.Gaia for revange crafted great stone sickle and gave it to bravest of her son's Coronus and placed him in ambush to attack Uranus.When Uranus and Gaia met,Coronus attacked his father Uranus castrating him and throwing his testicles into the sea.Testicals produced white foam from which Afrodita was born.The period Coronus ruled was called Golden Age.

Coronus learned form Gaia and Uranus about the prophecy which said that he will be removed from his thron like his father Uranus by his children.To stop the prophecy he devoured(eatean) all of his children after they were born,but Rhea(Coronus sister and mother of his childeren) gave birth to Zeus seceretly in Crete.Rhea tricked Coronus by giving him stone wrapperd in clothes that he swallowed instead of his son Zeus.When Zeus grew up,Gaia,his grandmother gave him poison which he used on his father Coronus.After Zeus poisoned Coronus,he disgorged his childeren,one of them was Poseidon.