The Romans were knowledgeable, intrepid, supreme in combat, but their gods and deities were beyond that. the youngest son of Mother Earth Gaea and Father Sky Uranus was Cronus, for he was known for being the father of the three most known Greek Gods, Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades, but he was a lot more than that. He was a lot like his father in the way that he was envious of his children, and was afraid that one of his children would dethrone. He was also the meanest father there was in History, for he liked to eat his children. Mythology has been telling the stories about his sons, but a far as Cronus the story is forgotten.
So let’s start from the being, Gaia was the great mother of all, for she was the primal Greek Mother Goddess, creator and giver of birth to the Earth and all the Universe, and the heavenly
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In most accounts he is swallowed by Cronus at birth but later saved, with his other brothers and sisters, by Zeus. However, in some versions of the story, he, like his brother Zeus, did not share the fate of his other brother and sisters who were eaten by Cronus. He was saved by his mother Rhea, who concealed him among a flock of lambs and pretended to have given birth to a colt, which she gave to Cronus to devour. In the heavily sea-dependent Mycenaean culture, there is not satisfactory evidence that Poseidon was connected with the sea. When Poseidon was born his mother declared to her husband Cronus, who used to swallow his offspring at birth, that she had given birth to a horse, and so she presented him a foal to swallow instead of the child. committed the child Poseidon to Caphira (one of the OCEANIDS) and to the TELCHINES, so that they would nurture him, much in the way as she later committed Zeus to the CURETES for his protection. But others say that Poseidon was swallowed by his father, as also were his siblings Hestia, Hera, Hades and Demeter; for they assert that only Zeus escaped that fate