Cronus
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Cronus is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between November 07, 2023 and November 17, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “Just so / Cronus’ / son, who / roosts on / lofty O- / lympus”; “Maybe Cronus killing Ouranos counts”. It most often appears alongside America, Israel, The Iliad.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: November 07, 2023
- Last seen: November 17, 2023
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Related Pages
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- America (2 shared issues)
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- Israel (2 shared issues)
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- The Iliad (2 shared issues)
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- Troy (2 shared issues)
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- Abel (1 shared issues)
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- Adam and Eve (1 shared issues)
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- Apollonius of Tyana (1 shared issues)
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- Arab (1 shared issues)
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- Athens (1 shared issues)
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- Ayatollah (1 shared issues)
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- Babylonian Captivity (1 shared issues)
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- Babylonian mythology (1 shared issues)
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
TRUMP: Pour’ng / forth out of / Rus’s / rough woods; from / Muscovy’s / boroughs Gun-bulky / troops rush / forth on / Korsun’s / uncorrupt / country Just so / Cronus' / son, who / roosts on / lofty O- / lympus Puffs up / storm clouds / - so puff'd / up, so / smug Popov's / columns. But ho- / mologous / to long- / shoot’ng / Phöbus’s / sun-glow Just so / Korsun’s proud / corps burnt / through your / columns, o / Moscow. Frolov / Sokolov / Tsokov / Kozlov / sturdy Kutuzov Brought to / Cocytus; / turn’d to / bounty for / dolorous / Pluto. But not ours such / glory; / you, Vo- / lodomyr, / hog boughs of / honor Thus our / funds ought / not to sup- / ply you, your / jousts should go / solo.
Sort of. Girard says that all of the primeval “we killed a guy and created the world from his corpse” myths fit his pattern - so Marduk killing Tiamat, Odin killing Ymir, etc. Maybe Cronus killing Ouranos counts, even if he didn’t exactly create the world from his corpse. The point is, there sure are a lot of “the world started with a primordial murder” myths, and maybe they’re distorted, half-remembered descriptions of the single-victim process founding civilization.