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Cronus And His Family: The Original 12 Titans

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Cronus has a very important family, his family was the original 12 Titans. The original 12 are: Oceanus, Hyperion, Coeus, Iapetus, Mnemosyne, Tethys, Theia, Phoebe, Rhea, Themis, and Cronus was the youngest of them all. As for why his name is Cronus, no one really knows. Some think maybe it comes from the root word “ker” meaning to cut. But that comes into play later in the story on why that has significance. As Cronus grew older he overthrew his father for the crown. We don’t know exactly how he did this, but we do know that he became king over his father. He married his sister ,Rhea, and they had six children together: Demeter, Hestia, Poseidon, Hera, Hades, and Zeus. Once Cronus had his children, he realized that they would probably try

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