URANUS

Uranus is one of the ancient gods in Greek mythology. He ruled the universe and his name refers to the deity of the sky and the sky specifically, which the Greeks described as a bronze dome dotted with stars. Uranus is one of the first-born gods, where they came from is not very clear. Either from nowhere or from some of the origins attributed to it, this information is a bit vague. Some accounts indicate that Uranus, for example, is the birth-genetic son of Gaia, of whom he was also the husband. Gaia is the goddess who personifies the earth and fertility.

In some stories, Gaia, who is the mother of all living things, conceived him without a father. In others, the father of Uranus is Aether or Chaos. It is also told in the stories of Higino that he is the son of Hemera and Ether, brother of Talasa, the goddess of the sea and also of Gea or Gaia. But in early mythological history, many claim that the information is scant and confusing. After Uranus, the personification of heaven, ruled the entire world and was Gaea's consort, the accounts are a little more consistent. In the classical stage no cults of any kind were carried out to the God Uranus or Ouranos, as he was also known, happening in the same way with his Roman version Caelus.

Decendents


Together, Uranus and Gaia had many descendants, including the pre-Olympian titans, gods, and goddesses; the Cyclops described as the one-eyed giants and the hecatoncheires, giants with many heads and arms.


There were six male and six female Titans: Oceanus, Crius, Lapetus, Hyperion, Cronus, and Coeus. The Titanides were Theia, Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, and Tethys. The Cyclops were Brontes, Steropes and Arges and the Hecatoncheires were Cottus, Briareos and Gyges.

Uranus came every night to cover the earth and copulate with Gaea, but she hated the children she begot. Hesiod called his first six sons and six daughters, the Titans, the three-hundred-armed giants the Hecatonchires, and the one-eyed giants the Cyclops. She created a large sickle out of flint and asked her children to castrate Uranus. Only Crono, the youngest and most ambitious, wanted to do it: he ambushed his father and castrated him, dropping his testicles into the sea.


For his fearful acts, Uranus called his children Titans Theoi. From the blood spilled by Uranus on Earth, the giants, the Erinyes, the meliades and, according to some, the telquines arose. From the genitals that fell into the sea Aphrodite emerged.



SOURCES:

https://entremitosyleyendas.com/c-griegos/dios-urano/

https://mitologia.fandom.com/es/wiki/Urano