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Cronus: A Classic Myth
The story of cronus is a classic myth that shows the themes of the struggle for power and fate and prophecy.
In the beginning, Cronus was givin a task to rise up against his father and save his brothers.
His mother was outraged when he did not save his brothers, so she put a horrible fate on him.
Cronus married to his sister Rhea, had five children. After each of them were born,
Cronus swallowed each of them to make sure the prophecy, where children would overpower him, wouldn't come true. Cronus and Rhea had their sxth and last child. Rhea, wanted to love and cherish her lasto child, so she asked her parents for advice and they told her to wrap a stone in baby clothes and give it to Cronus to swallow. The baby, Zeus, listen to create and raised.

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