Cronus vs El (Ilu)

Youngest of the twelve Titans, son of Uranus and Gaia. Cronus castrated his father to seize the sky's rule, presided over the mythical Golden Age, and was in turn overthrown by his own son Zeus after swallowing his children to avoid the same fate.

Cronus was born to Uranus (Sky) and Gaia (Earth), the youngest of the twelve Titans. When Uranus imprisoned his children within Gaia, she gave Cronus an adamantine sickle and urged him to castrate his father, which he did, ending Uranus's reign and beginning his own.

Cronus was the youngest and, in Hesiod's words, "the most terrible" of the twelve Titans born to Uranus (Sky) and Gaia (Earth). At his mother's urging, he ended his father's oppressive rule of the cosmos and became king of the Titans, ruling during what later poets called the Golden Age, a time of ease and abundance before toil and old age.

The aged king and father of the gods at Ugarit, 'Bull El', 'Father of Years', who presides over the divine assembly from his dwelling at the source of the two rivers and whose permission every younger god seeks.

El's name is simply the common Semitic word for "god". At Ugarit he is the head of the pantheon, the "Father of Years" and "Creator of Creatures", with a grey beard that other gods praise for its wisdom. He dwells far from the other gods "at the source of the two rivers, in the midst of the springs of the two deeps", in a tent or pavilion, and the assembly of the gods meets on his mountain. His consort is Athirat, and the gods are collectively "the sons of El".