In doing this, he became the Ruler of the Titans. Cronus also quickly imprisoned Uranus deep below Tartarus. After doing so, Cronus freed the imprisoned Hecatonchires and Cyclopes, by slicing open Gaia's womb and promptly imprisoned them in Tartarus.
When Uranus met to consort with Gaia on Mount Othrys, Cronus ambushed Uranus, and with the adamantine sickle, sliced off his genitals, casting them across the Mediterranean.
Only Cronus was willing to do the deed, so Gaia gave him the adamantine sickle and positioned him in the same crevice that previously held his sickle. Gaia then proceeded to attempt to convince 12 of her other children from Uranus, who were known as the Titans, to castrate Uranus. Gaia created a great sickle, forged from adamantine, and hid it in a crevice on Mount Othrys. Uranus drew the enmity of Gaia when he imprisoned six of her children- the three Hecatonchires (giants with 50 heads and 100 arms) and the three Cyclopes (also giants, each with a single eye in the middle of its forehead)- within her womb. The stage for the Titanomachy was set after the youngest Titan Cronus overthrew his own father, Uranus (Ουρανός, the sky and ruler of the cosmos), with the help of his mother, Gaia (Γαία, the earth). Rhea giving the rock to Cronus, 19th-century painted frieze by Karl Friedrich Schinkel Although only scraps of the Orphic narratives survive, they show differences from the Hesiodic tradition. The Titans also played a prominent role in the poems attributed to Orpheus. The dominant one, and the only one that has survived, is the Theogony attributed to Hesiod.
Greeks of the Classical Age knew of several poems about the war between the gods and many of the Titans. The war was fought to decide which generation of gods would have dominion over the universe it ended in victory for the Olympian gods. This event is also known as the War of the Titans, Battle of the Titans, Battle of the Gods, or just the Titan War. In Greek mythology, the Titanomachy ( / ˌ t aɪ t ə ˈ n ɒ m ə k i/ Ancient Greek: Τιτανομαχία, romanized: Titanomakhía, lit.'Titan battle') was a ten-year series of battles fought in Ancient Thessaly, consisting of most of the Titans (the older generation of gods, based on Mount Othrys) fighting against the Olympians (the younger generations, who would come to reign on Mount Olympus) and their allies.
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