[oldpaganfreak]

cronos was the father o fzeus. he was a nasty bugger who castrated his father.
he was never a god, but one of the titans, the father of the gods, who was a child of gaea and uranus.
again, we see the goddess, gaea as an earlier central figure.

before any of the other gods were born to cronus and rhea, aphrodite was born from the blood of uranus' castration as it hit the ocean waves.
ironic that the goddess of love should be the first child born from such a violent act.
yet again, a goddess upstages zeus.