Saturn, Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio, 1526, Graphic Art, Copper Engraving, Kronos (Cronus) devoured his children one by one in order to ensure that none of them should deprive him of his dominance of the entire world. According to Greek mythology Kronos was the youngest son of heaven, Uranus, and earth, Gaia. However, Gaia frightened Kronos by prophesying that one of his children would rob him of power. To Kronos, the solution was to swallow them. Nevertheless, Gaia managed to cheat him on one occasion. When his son Zeus was born

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