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Ouranos is the Greek name of the sky, latinized as Uranus. In Greek mythology it is personified as the son and husband of Gaia, Mother Earth. The two of them were ancestral to most of the Greek gods. His equivalent in Roman mythology was Caelus ("sky"). He was originally the same Indo-European god as the Hindu equivalent Varuna.
Uranus hid the youngest children of Gaia, the one-hundred armed giants ( Hecatonchires) and the one-eyed giants, the Cyclopes, in Tartarus so that they would not see the light, rejoicing in this evil doing. This caused pain to Gaia (Tartarus was her bowels) so she created grey flint and shaped a great sickle and gathered together Cronus and his brothers to ask them to obey her. Only Cronus was willing to do the deed, so Gaia gave him the sickle and set him in ambush. Cronus jumped out and lopped off his father's testicles, casting them behind him. From his blood on the Earth came forth the Gigantes, Erinyes and Meliae. From the testicles of Uranus in the sea came forth AphroditeAphrodite (φροδτη, "risen from sea-foam") is the Greek goddess of love and beauty. Worship The epithet Aphrodite Acidalia was occasionally added to her name, after the spring she used to bathe in, located in Boeotia ( Virgil. For this, Uranus called his sons TitansIn Greek mythology, the Titans (Greek , plural ) are among a series of gods who oppose Zeus and the Olympian gods in their ascent to power. Others include the Gigantes, Typhon, and Ophioneus. The Greek myth of the Titanomachy (the war with the Titans) fal, meaning "strainers" for they strained and did presumptuously a fearful deed, for which vengeance would come afterwards. After Uranus was deposed, however, Cronus returned the Hecatonchires and Cyclopes to Tartarus.
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- AphroditeAphrodite (φροδτη, "risen from sea-foam") is the Greek goddess of love and beauty. Worship The epithet Aphrodite Acidalia was occasionally added to her name, after the spring she used to bathe in, located in Boeotia ( Virgil
- Erinyes
- Alecto
- Megaera
- TisiphoneIn Greek mythology, two people shared the name Tisiphone ("avenging murder"). One of the Erinyes. Tisiphone fell in love with Cithaeron. She caused his death by snakebite, specifically, one of the snakes from her head. Daughter of Alcmaeon and Manto.
- Gigantes
- Alcyoneus
- Athos
- Clytias
- Enceladus
- Echion
- Meliae
- With Gaia
- Cyclopes
- Brontes
- Steropes
- Arges
- Hecatonchires
- Briareus
- Cottus
- Gyes
- Titans
- Coeus
- Crius
- Cronus
- Hyperion
- Iapetus
- Mnemosyne
- Oceanus
- Phoebe
- Rhea
- Tethys
- Theia
- Themis
Greek gods
Sky and weather gods
Titans
