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This has a fairly straightforward reason for this actually (though I found it somewhat anticlimactic myself). In many (or perhaps even all) mythologies, the earth is feminine. It’s also always where “life comes from”.

In creation myths, there is chaos and usually, the earth is female and the sky is male. There are also many “mother earth” mythologies. Even Norse poetry talks about the earth as “Odin’s wife”.

Of course, as exception to this rule, there are a few civilizations that talk about a “father-like” earth but they’re uncommon.

Then, we have “Cronus” (a.k.a. Kronos), a Titan. And we have, separately “Chronos”, the personification of Time. They are confused a lot for each other. As per the Wikipedia page:

Chronos was confused with, or perhaps consciously identified with, due to the similarity in name, the Titan Cronus already in antiquity, the identification becoming more widespread during the Renaissance, giving rise to the allegory of Father Time wielding the harvesting scythe.

The scythe comes from the fact that Kronos actually castrated his father with the scythe.

That’s why we have those “parents”.