Most elders were worshipped as gods, so it makes sense that Chronos is the same as Kronos. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Aoife Sphinx The Crow Goddess. Help us out. Update or expand one of these articles! Ask Question. Asked 4 years, 8 months ago. Active 1 year, 3 months ago. Viewed 5k times. Well, I saw a youtube comment on the latest Crash Course Mythology video- Chronus has nothing to do with time.
I also see No they didn't actually. As used in chronological, chronicle, and chronic pain. Improve this question. See theoi. See my note to C. Serious Greek scholars I studied under held this view, and claiming the words which are identical except for the initial consonant to be unrelated reveals a lack of understanding of Ancient Greek, imho.
See Cronus: Name and comparative mythology. Kairos is circular, dancing back and forth, here and there, without beginning or ending, and knows no boundaries. The Greeks represented time with nine different gods, but the main gods of time were Kronos and Kairos. Kronos, the god of the world and time, was the most important of the Elder Gods. He was Lord of the Universe, the source of life and death. He devoured his own children to prevent them from replacing him as the supreme god, but his wife saved their last son, Zeus, who eventually overthrew his father's relentless rule of life and death.
He was portrayed as a winged god, dancing on a razor's edge. In one hand he held the scales of fate. He reached out with the other hand to tip those scales, altering the course of fate. Kairos was the god of lucky chance. He personified numinous moments of time giving birth to novelty and surprise.
Kronos is mechanistic and deterministic, time that is ruled by the dead hand of the past. Kronos devours us with remorseless certainty.
Kronos turns life into stone. Kairos is creative and serendipitous. Kairos is time that is energized by the living dream of the future and presents us with unlimited possibility.
Kairos turns fate into destiny. We can temper our fear and our fixation on sequential time. We can deepen our quest and our experiences of numinous time. In such synchronicity of kronos and kairos lies our deepest consolation and our steepest aspiration.
My father passed away several years ago, but these words are a bittersweet reminder that timeless wisdom often extends beyond a chronological life's last breath.
By embracing the idea of kairos, we move beyond chronology and begin to view our time and our entire life in nonlinear, expansive terms, opening up to rich opportunities for inspiration. Through this simple change in perspective, we begin to see how we too can travel through time, and how we can even connect to eternity, as our words, art, and actions of today can reverberate throughout the universe forever, just as my dad's words are echoing here.
In a wider context, wings are freely bestowed by archaic artists upon all manner of divine beings, and fabulous monsters such as sphinxes and griffins are also winged; the type of the winged Typhoeus has its place with them. That Time should be winged is something in which it is easy to find symbolic meaning.
Plutarch, though, continues to speak of a more figurative allegory known in the Orphic cults and to the Greeks in general:. And they are those that tell us that, as the Greeks are used to allegorize Kronos or Saturn into chronos time , and Hera or Juno into aer air and also to resolve the generation of Vulcan into the change of air into fire, so also among the Egyptians, Osiris is the river Nile, who accompanies with Isis, which is the earth; and Typhon is the sea, into which the Nile falling is thereby destroyed and scattered, excepting only that part of it which the earth receives and drinks up, by means whereof she becomes prolific.
Kronos was not the only one to be allegorized into chronos, however. Athenagoras and Damascius both record that the winged serpent Chronos was also called Heracles. What was there about Heracles that enabled him to be identified with a creature of such physical monstrosity and such cosmic importance? Only one plausible answer has so far been suggested. In the legendary cycle of twelve labours, in the course of which Heracles overcame a lion, a bull, and various other dangerous fauna, some allegorical interpreters saw the victorious march of the sun through the twelve signs of the zodiac.
Time is measured by the sun and the solar year. By the same token, it may be argued, the Orphic Chronos, Time himself, might be identified with Heracles, the indomitable animal-tamer of the zodiac. However, there is another possibility. The early Stoics derived from this their doctrine of the Great Year, at the end of which the cosmos is totally dissolved into fire. They defined time as the dimension of cosmic movement.
Time was therefore coextensive with the Great Year, and could be considered to pause in the ecpyrosis. The allusion is on the one hand to the Stoic ecpyrosis, on the other to the pyre on the summit of Mount Oeta in which Heracles was cremated and achieved apotheosis after completing his labours. In this Stoic allegorization of the Heracles myth, then, the cycle of labours corresponds to the totality of divine activity in the course of the Great Year. This is admittedly rather speculative.
It is noteworthy, however, because it links Chronos to one of two Greek cults that thrived heavily under Rome, those of Herakles and Dionysus. The movement from the literal to the figurative is not the only direction. The process works in reverse as well. What subsequently happens is a combining and recombining in which incompatible features are freely merged and tossed away. In none of these ancient representations do we find the hourglass, the scythe or sickle, the crutches, or any signs of a particularly advanced age.
In other words, the ancient images of Time are either characterized by symbols of fleeting speed and precarious balance, or by symbols of universal power and infinite fertility, but not by symbols of decay and destruction. How, then, did these most specific attributes of Father Time come to be introduced? The answer lies in the fact that the Greek expression for time, Chronos, was very similar to the name of Kronos the Roman Saturn , oldest and most formidable of the gods.
A patron of agriculture, he generally carried a sickle.
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