Mythology- Creation characters?

Question

In college I studied a myth about Creation and was wondering which culture wrote this story.. It was about the sky and how they cut off the sky.. Conrus was the male characters name??

Answer 1

I think you might be talking about Cronos from the Greek origin myth.

If I remember correctly. At first there was nothing. Out of the void emerged Gaia (The Earth), Eros and Tartarus. Gaia gave birth to Ouranos (The Sky). They had chlidren together (The Titans), but Ouranos wanted to prevent them from overtaking him, so he stuffed them inside Gaia. One of these children was Cronos. Gaia gave Cronos a sickle (I think) and he castrated his father. Cronos then became ruler. He and his sister/wife Rhea, gave birth to several children (the original Olympian gods), but like his father Cronos was jealous, so he ate them. When she gave birth to Zeus, Rhea tricked Cronos into eating a stone instead. When Zeus grew up he overthrew his father, took the position of King of the Gods, and freed his siblings from their father's stomach.

Answer 2

Ah, mythology. Fun stuff!

"Conrus" doesn't ring a bell; It could be you're talking about one of two possible Greek figures: Cronus or Chronos.

In the ancient Greek literature, Chronos is the personification of time. Cronus, the son of Uranus and Gaia and the youngest of the twelve Titans, whom he led. The confusion comes not only due to the close approximation of their names, but also do to their roles in the pantheon of Greek mythology.

My links below should help you along in your search to revisit these myths, and possibly to discover a few more! Pantheon.org is a great site for creation myths from all around the world.

Answer 3

You mean Cronus right, the Titan (old God) and father of Zeus. Every culture has its own creation story.

The actual origin of Adam and Eve, I guess, could be traced through the ancient records of Sumerian and Hebrew civilizations, or even the Arabs because the story originates from the Near and Middle East.

Cronus is a Greek God and he was nasty because he ate his own children and it was Zeus who slew him and made him threw the children out.

And did you know that some Greeks believe that Aphrodite was born from his testicles, which was cut by Zeus and dropped into the sea? Well, just a stuff of myth.

But according to them, the first human ever created was Pandora and it was her fault to cause suffering and devastation on earth because she opened the box which she was supposed to safeguard it.

Answer 4

IT'S ALL MADE UP BY MANKIND. MYTHOLOGY-CREATION, IS THE ONE IN THE SAME. IT'S MAN'S NEED TO THINK THERE'S MORE THAN THIS ONE LIFE, THEREFORE IF HE MAKES A MESS OF THIS ONE, HE HAS ANOTHER CHANCE................DON'T TAKE CHANCES.......LIVE!!!!!!!!!!!