In the West, people often referred to as sickle curved sword, in Greek mythology, the god Kronos (Cronus) is cut with a sickle original God of his father Uranus (Uranus) genitals, and then the former has been The son of Zeus Lightning defeated and deposed, exiled. Fusarium has been a Kronos (Latin Saturn, Saturn is) a sign, before he was seen as the ancient Greek god of fertility, then the time people confuse him and the embodiment of Ke Luonuo (Chronus) the name, so the hand-held sickle Cronus (or long-handled sickle) the image became a symbol of the passage of time, in the sense that sickle became a symbol of death, death, "choose" it as a weapon also a matter of course