NPPF Comm3: Rainy Day Incest #18 & 000

sZ keithsz at concentric.net
Thu Sep 11 14:38:31 CDT 2003


>>>"Mt. Kron"
German for "crown."  Also implies time, but maybe more significant is that
Kronenberg Castle in Copenhagen was once known as Elsinore (the setting for
some famous soliloquies).<<<

KRONOS
A son of Uranos, and father to Zeus, Kronos was 'the ripener', 'the
harvester god'. Deposing his father from the throne of Olympus, Kronos
married his own sister, Rhea, thus siring not only Zeus, but Poseidon,
Hades, Hestia, Demeter and Hera. Fearing that the prophecy that warned him
that his youngest born would dethrone him, Kronos swallowed his first five
children, but when it came to Zeus' turn, Rhea gave her husband a stone
shaped like an infant, and secretly conveyed the baby away to Mount Ida, in
Crete. There he was looked after by the nymphs Ida and Adrastea, with Rhea's
servants, the Kuretes, being appointed to carry on a continual noise by
dancing and clashing their swords and shields, lest the infant's cries be
heard by his father.





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