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Eternal father, mighty Titan,

hear, great sire of gods and men,

whom all revere; endued with various counsel, pure and strong, to whom increase and decrement belong.

Hence matter’s flowing forms through thee that die, by thee restored,

their former place supply [reincarnation]. The world immense in everlasting chains, strong and ineffable thy power contains; father of vast eternity, divine,

O mighty Kronos, various speech is thine; blossom of earth and of starry skies, husband of Rhea, and Prometheus wise. Obstetric power and venerable root,

from which the various forms of being shoot; no parts peculiar can thy power enclose, diffused through all, from which the world arose.

O best of beings, of a subtle mind, propitious hear, to suppliant prayers inclined; the sacred rites benevolent attend, and grant a blameless life, a blessed end [passage after death to Elysion.

This is the Orphic Hymn to Kronos. It speaks about Kronos being the father of Gods and men, husband to Rhea, mother of the Gods. Interesting enough Prometheus is also mentioned as if He was also a creator. Indeed Kronos helped shape the universe as it is and that torch was passed along to Zeus, his son. Kronos was imprisoned in Tartaros and than later freed to rule the isle of the blessed but as Time, he kind of “imprisons” the universe because everything is bound by time. Only when gravity is strong enough, it can slow it down but not stop it.