Chronos (2021) Drawing by Edwin Loftus

Chronos, god of time, resets the imaginary analogue that enables him to control the flow of time. The slight alteration sends ripples and swirling through the flow.
This concept of time as a thing or force that could be manipulated is ancient and still stands today in Einstein's Theory of Relativity. He proposed that time is related to velocity. The greater the velocity, the slower the flow of time. This has famously been supported by experiments with identical timekeepers, one in orbit and one on Earth, and the decay rates of sub-atomic particles. That's important because Einstein's conclusions were based on using mathematical calculations to represent ontological phenomena and, of course, mathematics is an imaginary realm that bears no direct relationship to reality. 1 + 1 never actually equals two 1s because no two 1s can ever be affirmed to be identical. So while 1 +1 = 1 + 1. It can never actually be determined that 1 + 1 = 2 x 1, in the physical world as we experience it. Velocity is relative, to the point of being of dubious value. An object moving at close to the speed of light, relative to some other object, may be not moving at all compared to another. So which object effects a determination of velocity is a matter of choice and perception, not ontological truth.
This is largely an issue of semantics and the inadequacy of our symbolic communications to accurately portray existence. If I swing my arm in a circle, my hand is moving at a greater velocity than my shoulder relative to every other object in existence. If this slowed its movement in time, it would disappear into the past, relative to my shoulder because, however slightly, time would not be passing as fast for it as for my shoulder, my elbow or my wrist. And when I stop swinging my arm, my hand wouldn't catch up in time to my shoulder, it would remain in the past advancing at whatever rate my shoulder is advancing but in my past, which no longer exists in my present.
None of this means that Einstein was wrong except in how he expressed himself. And though totally theoretical, mathematics has proven itself to be one of the most useful tools in studying phenomena. This is an Epistemological, (what is known and how), approach to the same subject and so far as I know, Einstein wasn't a student of Epistemology.
I, (perhaps foolishly), referred to this because there is more to the myth of Chronos than meets the eye. That's why I undertook this subject and I hope others will look beyond the superficiality of mysticism and ancient lore.

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