the imprisonment of the hundred-handed ones and the cyclopes hurt gaea she began to encourage the titans to rebel against father sky cronus was the youngest and the bravest of the titans he promised his mother that he would defeat his father and free her children
when uranus spread himself over the earth cronus leapt up and swung his scythe he seriously wounded uranus by cutting off a vital this orgen fell into the ocean where it created the goddess of love aphrodite
uranus withdrew from earth and from that time on the sky and the earth never touched again uranus cursed cronus saying that one of cronus children would rise up against him just as cronus had risen up against uranus
once cronus had defeated uranus he married his sister rhea and took his father's throne on mt.othrys they gave birth to many children however,cronus was cruel to these children because he remembered his father's curse to prevent his children from revolting against him, he swallowed them whole as soon as they were born they were immortal,so they could not die instead,they continued to grow within father.