Uranus

Uranus, also known as Ouranos, is a Greek primordial deity and the personification of the sky. He was the son and husband of Gaia, who fathered the first Titans. However, no cult addressed to Uranus survived into Classical times and he does not appear in Greek painted pottery. Elemental Earth, Sky, and Styx may be joined in solemn invocations in Homeric epic. Uranus is associated with the Roman god Caelus.
The name Oὐραvός is believed to have originated from Proto-Greek *Worsanós, a form of *ṷorsó-. The basic Indo-European root is *ṷérs-, meaning to rain or moisten. Ouranos is often considered the "rain-maker" or "lord of rain." Another possible etymology is a derivative meaning "the one standing on high" from PIE *ṷérso-. Georges Dumézil's identification of Uranus with the Vedic deity Váruṇa is significant in the comparative study of Indo-European mythology, but the etymological equation is now considered unconvincing.
Hesiod's Theogony, the Greeks' standard account, states that from Gaia (Earth), Uranus, the Ourea (Mountains), and Pontus (Sea) came the twelve Titans, the Cyclopes (Brontes, Steropes, Arges), and the Hecatoncheires (Hundred-Handed Ones), who mated with Gaia, giving birth to the twelve Titans, Cyclopes, and Hecatoncheires.
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