EnaBoBena · 1 decade ago
LOL it's the Greek God, Cronus. Who was a Titan, the head of all Titans. When his wife, Gaia, gave birth, he swallowed each baby to keep safe his thrown. Until Gaia one day decided to hide one of her babies (Zeus) and give Cronus a rock to swallow. Zeus ended up overthrowing Cronus.
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Jahyvie · 1 decade ago
No that is one of the 3 theories. And that is what most everyone THINKS it is about but no one is 100% sure. So no, no one knows what it is actually for.
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babydolphin09 · 1 decade ago
I was litterally just thinking the same thing.. people know why it's there.
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Jahyvie · 1 decade ago
No, no one is for sure what it actually is and that is just a theory. :]
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DragbiaN · 1 decade ago
i live in switzerland, i have never seen it tho
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*nerium* · 1 decade ago
Kindlifresser may be depicting Greek Titan Kronos, as he devoured his children as soon as they were born, besides Zeus, who used an emetic to force Kronos to disgorge the contents of his stomach in reverse order (his two brothers and three sisters). Peter Paul Rubens' painting of Kronos devouring Poseidon is quite terrifying, as well as Francisco Goya's Romanised inspiration. Also, this is long and I am boring, bye.
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charlieisnotaunicorn · 1 decade ago
Someone had to wake up in the morning and say "hey today I'll just sculpt a giant statue of a man eating a sack of babies."
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bunnylover43 · 1 decade ago
lol
http://www.google.com/imgres?
um=1&hl=en&newwindow=1&tbo=d&tbm=isch&tbnid=SYTKYHoQA1H7pM:&imgref
url=http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/child-eater-
bern&docid=r58pz4urS9FHKM&imgurl=http://images.atlasobscura.com/2012/10/02
/16/50/49/240/file&w=253&h=380&ei=qqbbUL3KHOy40QHc94CoBQ&zoom=1&iact
=hc&vpx=85&vpy=92&dur=77&hovh=276&hovw=183&tx=79&ty=168&sig=11708034
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mollifers123 · 1 decade ago
yea thats a story from mythology :)) i just learneded that :L
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Jahyvie · 1 decade ago
Actually that is one of the theories for it. No one is exactly sure what it means :]
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mollifers123 · 1 decade ago
true, but that is the most likely reason. Considering that it's 500 hundred years old and people still believed in greek mythology (and some people do still do today ^v^) Either way it goes it's still weird to have a statue of it. :)
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Jahyvie · 1 decade ago
yah I think thats what it is too. Its what makes the most sense lol. And yah it the creepiest statue I have ever seen lol
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DoodleLove · 1 decade ago
http://images.atlasobscura.com/2012/10/02/16/50/50/688/file
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dolph* · 1 decade ago
i was just about to post that.
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Jahyvie · 1 decade ago
omg lol every time I see it I get scared
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hermione23katniss · 1 decade ago
I think the statue is portraying the titan Kronos eating his children. It's from greek mythology.
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Jahyvie · 1 decade ago
lol well the tatue defiantly doesnt look like something for greek mythology It looks like a fat circus guy, but yah I guess that makes sense lol
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hermione23katniss · 1 decade ago
kronos wasn't human so i think it could be a possibility. I saw the picture of the statue and it might be a possibility
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Jahyvie · 1 decade ago
That link is the three main theories in case you wanted to see them and what you said was one of them haha. :]
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Jahyvie · 1 decade ago
http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/child-eater-bern
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shannonboo97 · 1 decade ago
That's what I was thinking as well lol
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Eli22b · 1 decade ago
Actually, they describe it as an ogre. ;)
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Jahyvie · 1 decade ago
Oh really. Thanks lol. I had to do a paper on something weird and I chose that statue, thanks a lot for this. :]
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