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The Mutilation of Uranus by Saturn: fresco by Giorgio Vasari and Cristofano Gherardi, c. 1560 (Sala di Cosimo I, Palazzo Vecchio) As Hesiod tells the story, Gaia "first bore starry Heaven [Uranus], equal to herself, to cover her on every side, and to be an ever-sure abiding-place for the blessed gods."
The Mutilation of Uranus by Saturn [Cronus], 16th-century oil painting by Giorgio Vasari. Only Cronus was willing to do the deed, so Gaia gave him the sickle and placed him in ambush. [3] When Uranus met with Gaia, Cronus attacked him with the sickle, castrating him and casting his testicles into the sea.
After Uranus's castration, Gaia mated with her son Pontus (Sea) producing a descendent line consisting primarily of sea deities, sea nymphs, and hybrid monsters. Their first child Nereus (Old Man of the Sea) married Doris , one of the Oceanid daughters of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys, and they produced the Nereids , fifty sea nymphs, which ...
This week, revisit what you know about Uranus, explore the far side of the moon, rediscover the famed fossil known as Lucy, and meet an otherworldly sea creature. NASA’s only visit to Uranus ...
Uranus, blue-green in color due to the methane contained in an atmosphere comprised mostly of hydrogen and helium, has a diameter of about 31,500 miles (50,700 km). It is big enough to fit 63 ...
The Mutilation of Uranus by Saturn: fresco by Giorgio Vasari and Cristofano Gherardi, c. 1560 (Sala di Cosimo I, Palazzo Vecchio) According to the standard version of ...
Uranus is the butt of a lot of jokes, but scientists pronounce the name of our seventh planet differently than, say, most giggling middle-schoolers. You've been pronouncing 'Uranus' wrong your ...
Quinta del Sordo, c. 1900 In 1819, Goya purchased a house on the banks of Manzanares near Madrid called Quinta del Sordo (Villa of the Deaf Man). It was a two-story house which was named after a previous occupant who had been deaf, although the name was fitting for Goya too, who had been left deaf after contracting a fever in 1792.