Let us now turn to Preller. {61a} According to Preller, Kronos is
connected with [Greek], to fulfil, to bring to completion. The harvest
month, the month of ripening and fulfilment, was called [Greek] in some
parts of Greece, and the jolly harvest-feast, with its memory of Saturn's
golden days, was named [Greek]. The sickle of Cronus, the sickle of
harvest-time, works in well with this explanation, and we have a kind of
pun in Homer which points in the direction of Preller's derivation from
[Greek]:--

[Greek]

and in Sophocles ('Tr.' 126)--

[Greek].

Preller illustrates the mutilation of Uranus by the Maori tale of
Tutenganahau. The child-swallowing he connects with Punic and Phoenician
influence, and Semitic sacrifices of men and children. Porphyry {61b}
speaks of human sacrifices to Cronus in Rhodes, and the Greeks recognised
Cronus in the Carthaginian god to whom children were offered up.

Hartung {61c} takes Cronus, when he mutilates Uranus, to be the fire of
the sun, scorching the sky of spring. This, again, is somewhat out of
accord with Schwartz's idea, that Cronus is the storm-god, the
cloud-swallowing deity, his sickle the rainbow, and the blood of Uranus
the lightning. {61d} According to Prof. Sayce, again, {62a} the blood-
drops of Uranus are rain-drops. Cronus is the sun-god, piercing the dark
cloud, which is just the reverse of Schwartz's idea. Prof. Sayce sees
points in common between the legend of Moloch, or of Baal under the name
of Moloch, and the myth of Cronus. But Moloch, he thinks, is not a god