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means A personification of time itself, usually pictured as an old bearded man carrying a scythe and an hourglass, symbolizing the relentless passage of years.

from Father Time isn't from mythology proper — he's a composite figure that emerged in art and literature by borrowing heavily from Cronus/Saturn, the Greek and Roman god devoured by associations with harvest and the scythe (partly thanks to a folk mix-up between Cronus and Chronos, the Greek word for time itself). Renaissance and later illustrators fused that scythe-bearing old god with the hourglass, an instrument tied to measuring time, to create the robed elder we picture today — a figure built more by artists and New Year's cartoons than by ancient belief.