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Although the name of Kronos is not attested in Mycenaean texts, the Homeric poems, in which the clearly
Mycenaean patronymic suffix -ivwn (Kronivwn) is preserved along with the patronymic suffix -ivdh" (Zeus Kronid - Kronivdh"), clearly testify with all
certainty that the name Kronos may go back to the 2nd millennium BC. It is important to note that Kronos himself
belongs to the generation that is designated as the generation
‘past gods’ (Hesiod. Theog. 486). The division into
“past” and “present” gods, as it was shown, in particular, in the works of Vyach. Vs. Ivanov, is present in a number of
traditions of the 2nd millennium BC, in particular, in the Hittite.
Further comparison of the theonym with the data of other Indo-European traditions can probably also be continued
and, in particular, a phonetic comparison with
the ancient Indian theonym Kṣṇa – Krishna, which denotes one of the incarnations of Vishnu (Erman, Temkin 1975: 202; Bryant
2007) suggests itself. In the Sanskrit tradition, the epithet remained extremely clear from the point of view of the internal form (‘black’) and does not cause
particular difficulties from the standpoint of modern etymological analysis. M. Mayrhofer notes that the epithet is already presented
in the Rigveda, including in the substantiated meaning
‘black antelope’ (Mayrhofer 1986: 397–398). It is possible
to reconstruct this epithet as common Indo-Iranian, relying mainly on onomastics for the Iranian area. Further comparisons lead us to the Balto-Slavic area (ESSYA
4: 155–157), where the root is widely represented, including in toponymy. It seems that these – already known – comparisons
