The god associated with time was a blood-thirsty savage. Kronos, son of Uranus (Sky) and Gaia (Earth), castrated his father to become ruler of the universe during the first Golden Age of humanity. This was the age before humans lived in families, generations, tribes or states. (1) The universe went backwards. Humans did not give birth and then in turn die. They came to life autochthonously as the classical Greek concept, and now anthropological term, would have it--out of the earth ...