Then [Cronos] from his ambush stretched forth his left hand and in his right took the great long sickle with jagged teeth, and swiftly lopped off his own father [Heaven]'s members and cast them away to fall behind him. [...] And so soon as he had cut off the members with flint and cast them from the land into the surging sea, they were swept away over the main a long time: and a white foam spread around them from the immortal flesh, and in it there grew a maiden [...] and came forth an awful and lovely goddess [...]. Her gods and men call Aphrodite [...].