Ara
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The gods of ancient Greece weren’t especially good parents. One of the ancient gods known as the Titans, for example, swallowed his newborn children. Eventually, though, the kiddos escaped and overthrew him. Their victory is commemorated in the stars, as the altar where they swore allegiance to each other. It’s the constellation Ara, and it’s below the tail of the scorpion.
In the story, Cronus was the king of the Titans. He’d come to power by defeating his own father. A prophecy said that one of his children would, in turn, defeat him. To prevent that, he swallowed each of his first five children.
Eventually, though, his wife, Rhea, got tired of that plan. When the last child, Zeus, was born, she hustled him away to an island and gave Cronus a rock wrapped in a blanket.
When Zeus grew up, he returned home and forced his dad to cough up his brothers and sisters, who were fully grown gods and goddesses. They pledged to defeat the Titans, and won a 10-year war. Zeus became the king of th
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