The mighty Cronos, the Titan son of Gaia, grew so fearful of the Oracle's prediction that his own children would rise against him as he had overthrown his father Uranus, that he decided to imprison them all in his belly. His wife Rhea stood by and watched as her children were devoured one by one. But when the time came for the last of her children to be eaten, she was unable to bear another such loss, and devised a trick to save her baby, Zeus. Cronos swallowed a stone wrapped in cloth, as a Golden Eagle whisked Zeus away into the horizon, to an island well beyond the watchful eyes of the Titan Lord.