Cronus vs Tethys

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.

A Titaness, daughter of Gaia and Uranus and wife of her brother Oceanus. Hesiod makes her mother of the world's rivers and of the three thousand Oceanid nymphs; in the Iliad Hera calls her 'mother Tethys' and recalls being raised in her house.

Tethys was among the children Gaia bore to Uranus, the generation of Titans that preceded the Olympians. She married her brother Oceanus and bore him the rivers and the Oceanid nymphs.

Tethys is one of the twelve Titans born to Gaia and Uranus. Paired with her brother Oceanus, the great river that encircles the earth, she becomes in Hesiod's *Theogony* the mother of all rivers (Nile, Alpheus, Scamander, and many more) and of the Oceanids, the three thousand nymphs of springs and streams.