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In Greek mythology, Uranus (/ ˈ j ʊər ə n ə s / YOOR-ə-nəs, also / j ʊ ˈ r eɪ n ə s / yoo-RAY-nəs), [3] sometimes written Ouranos (Ancient Greek: Οὐρανός, lit. ' sky ', [uːranós] ), is the personification of the sky and one of the Greek primordial deities .
Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. ... (Ancient Greek: Οὐρανός), known as Caelus in Roman mythology, the father of Cronus , ...
In an ancient myth recorded by Hesiod's Theogony, Cronus envied the power of his father, Uranus, the ruler of the universe.Uranus drew the enmity of Cronus's mother, Gaia, when he hid the gigantic youngest children of Gaia, the hundred-handed Hecatoncheires and one-eyed Cyclopes, in Tartarus, so that they would not see the light.
Because Cronus had learned from Gaia and Uranus that he was destined to be overthrown by one of his children, he swallowed each of the children born to him by his Titan older sister, Rhea. But when Rhea was pregnant with her youngest child, Zeus, she sought help from Gaia and Uranus. When Zeus was born, Rhea gave Cronus a stone wrapped in ...
Rhea was born to the earth goddess Gaia and the sky god Uranus, one of their twelve (or thirteen [16]) Titan children. [17] According to Hesiod, Uranus imprisoned all his children, while Apollodorus states he only imprisoned the Cyclopes and the Hecatoncheires, not the Titans.
Mithraic altar (3rd-century AD) showing Caelus flanked by allegories of the Seasons (Museum Carnuntinum, Lower Austria)Caelus or Coelus (/ ˈ s iː l ə s /; SEE-ləs) was a primordial god of the sky in Roman mythology and theology, iconography, and literature (compare caelum, the Latin word for "sky" or "heaven", hence English "celestial").
Eventually Uranus' son, the Titan Cronus, castrated Uranus, freeing his fellow Titans (but not, apparently, the Hundred-Handers), and Cronus became the new ruler of the cosmos. [78] Cronus married his sister Rhea , and together they produced five children, whom Cronus swallowed as each was born, but the sixth child, Zeus, was saved by Rhea and ...
The following is a family tree of gods, goddesses, and other divine and semi-divine figures from Ancient Greek mythology and Ancient Greek religion. Chaos The Void