Chronos
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Chronos (Ancient Greek: Χρόνος, "time," also transliterated as Khronos or Latinized as Chronus) is the personification of Time in pre-Socratic philosophy and later literature.
Chronos was imagined as a god, serpentine in form, with three heads—those of a man, a bull, and a lion.[citation needed] He and his consort, serpentine Ananke (Inevitability), circled the primal world egg in their coils and split it apart to form the ordered universe of earth, sea and sky. He is not to be confused with the Titan Cronus.
He was depicted in Greco-Roman mosaics as a man turning the Zodiac Wheel.[citation needed] Chronos, however, might also be contrasted with the deity Aion as Eternal Time[1] (see aeon).
Chronos is usually portrayed through an old, wise man with a long, grey beard, such as "Father Time". Some of the current English words whose etymological root is khronos/chronos include chronology, chronometer, chronic, anachronism, and chronicle.
[edit] Mythical cosmogonies
In the Orphic cosmogony the unageing Chronos produced Aether and Chaos, and made a silvery egg in the divine Aether. It produced the hermaphroditic god Phanes, who gave birth to the first generation of gods and is the ultimate creator of the cosmos.
Pherecydes of Syros in his lost Heptamychos (the seven recesses), around 6th century BC, claimed that there were three eternal principles: Chronos, Zas (Zeus) and Chthonie (the chthonic). The semen of Chronos was placed in the recesses and produced the first generation of gods.[2]
[edit] In popular culture
- In the DC Comics universe, Chronos is a super-villain identity, assumed by a few different individuals.
- In an episode of Johnny Bravo, Johnny meets a bear living in a cave filled with various clocks, who calls himself "Chronos, Master of Time".
- In the video game, Heroes of Newerth, Chronos is an Hellbourne Agility type Hero who has the power to manipulate time, and has skills that can make him one of the most powerful, dangerous and elusive heroes in the game.
- Several episodes of The Mask: The Animated Series feature the Mask going up against a time-travelling mad scientist, Dr. Amelia Chronos.
- In season 7, episode 12 of the TV series Supernatural, Dean goes back in time to 1944 and hunts Chronos with the famous Eliot Ness.
- In the popular children's title Percy Jackson and the Olympians Chronos is confused with the Titan Cronus.
- In the Disney's short movie "Destino", Chronos is portrayed falling in love with a mortal woman.[3]
- In Sailor Moon, Chronos is Sailor Pluto's father.
- In Persona 2: Innocent Sin, Chronos is Jun Kurosu's Ultimate Persona.
[edit] References
- ^ Doro Levi, "Aion," Hesperia 13.4 (1944), p. 274.
- ^ G.S.Kirk,J.E.Raven and M.Schofield (2003). The Presocratic Philosophers. Cambridge University Press. pp. 24, 56. http://www.books.google.com/books?id=kFpd86J8PLsC&printsec.
- ^ "Destino" by disney and Dali: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GFkN4deuZU
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