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The farthest Ouranos went in Offing His Offspring was by caging up the Kyklopes and Hekatonkheires within Gaia, spurring Gaia to gather up her sons in order to overthrow their father (cue Cronus, who castrates Ouranos). Plato mentions \\\"Men believe that Zeus . . . put his father [Kronos] in bonds because he wickedly devoured his children, and he in turn had mutilated his father [Ouranos] for similar reasons.\\\" -- but, again, I believe those \\\"similar reasons\\\" (similar being key) imply how Gaia rallied Cronus (and his Titan brothers) to castrate Ouranos as vengeance for imprisoning her children/Cronus\\\'s other siblings (Cyclopes and Hecatonchires), not for devouring Cronus and/or Cronus\\\'s Titan siblings. Ouranos specifically targeted the Cyclopes and Hecatonchires because he saw them as disgusting (YMMV - or your myth may vary), but made no mention of any specific disdain for the other Titans until they castrated and overthrew him. The closest Ouranos ever comes to offing Cronus is when he and Gaia prophesied Cronus would be overthrown by Zeus, and that wasn\\\'t even offing anyone, just predicting Cronus\\\'s offing.

Neither the Wikipedia page or this page (http://www.theoi.com/Protogenos/Ouranos.html) make a mention of Ouranos devouring Cronus; the latter link is to a site that is very extensive and includes texts/encyclopediac-like information. Theoi (the site itself) also includes a nice Classical Library citing the texts it used to make the site; it\\\'s also one of the few sites I trust for research, but if there\\\'s another out there that includes classical texts and explains what Theoi doesn\\\'t, I would really appreciate a link (I\\\'m a bit of a Greek!Myth!Geek).

I\\\'d edit it, but I don\\\'t want to step on anyone\\\'s toes, and if I\\\'m wrong, I don\\\'t want to misinform anyone. Is there really a myth out there involving Ouranos devouring Cronus?