#kronos stone

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In the continuity of Young Hercules, HtLJ, and Xena, there exists an artifact called the Kronos Stone. Precisely what it does seems to change throughout each series (in YH, it grants half-gods godly powers and can make full-gods super powerful. In HtLJ, it can, amongst other things, allow for brief time travel), but what is an absolute certainty about it is that it is extremely powerful. Enough that, with it, Zeus was able to overthrow the Titans. What does this version of the story have to do with Hesiod's account in Theogeny? Quite a bit, in fact.

When it was predicted that one of his children would, one day, overthrown him as he'd done to his own father, Kronos devised a plan to eat all of his children the moment they were born. Distressed at losing so many children, his wife Rhea gave birth to the youngest (Zeus) in secret. She presented her husband with a rock cleverly disguised as a swaddled newborn, though, and he ate it without a second thought. Years later, when Zeus was grown, he returned and gave Kronos something to make him vomit. Not only did he throw up the rock, but all of Zeus' siblings as well. Thus began the great Titanomachy, the war in which Zeus and his siblings (with considerable help from the Gigantes, Hecatonchires, and Cyclopes, all of whom Zeus freed from Tartarus) overthrew the Titans and gained control over Olympus.