The oldest stories about 'Father Time' describe an entity with a seraph's body and heads like the angelic cherubim. Kronos is a voracious spirit of abuse who consumes the past. Bound in chains to prevent him eating the future nevertheless through the power of unresolved past trauma he wants to devour the present too.
We can believe we've escaped abuse when in reality complicity with Kronos has locked us into a maximum security spiritual prison...