Uranus

Uranus is the Greek personification of heaven. He is one of the Primordiai, or "firstborn", the first beings that emerged from the emptiness of Chaos. Uranus is the Greek word for heaven, and its Roman counterpart is Caelus. The Greeks imagined the sky as a solid bronze dome. He was the husband of Gaia, and he was the father of the Titans with her before being conquered by his son, Cronus, and the other Titans. His Roman form is Caelus, which comes from caelum, the Latin word for "sky".
==History==
Uranus was the first husband of Gaia, whose body he surrounded in the form of the sky. They became consorts and brought forth their children: the Titans, the Cyclopes, and the Hekatonkeries. Uranus wasn't the fatherly type and didn't care for his children at all. In fact, he hated them. He hated all his children but especially those of his children that did not look normal such as the Hekatonkeries and Elder Cyclopes. They were unsightly in his opinion and he wanted them gone but he couldn't kill them because they were immortal, just like he was. So instead, Uranus chained all six of them up with extremely durable black chains (forged from the darkness of the night sky) and subsequently hurled them into Tartarus. This caused Gaia great grief. She was also furious because they were her children, and Uranus cared nothing for them.
Having forged a scythe, she then gathered her remaining children, the Titans, requesting them to take it in order to get rid of Uranus and free their brothers, the Cyclopes and the Hekatonkeries. The Titans were scared of their father as he hurled the Cyclops and Hekatonkeries easily to Tartarus and even though they detested him, they still were reluctant to murder their father. However, the youngest Titan wanted to show his bravery to the others as he wanted to show that being the smallest didn't mean he couldn't do the job. He was also angry that Gaia and Uranus both didn't pay much attention to him so he was the youngest. So Cronus agreed to Gaea and his brothers Hyperion, Iapetus, Crius and Coeus agreed to help him. However, his brother Oceanus and his sisters all refused to help and claimed they had more important things to do.
As the betrayal hadn't occurred yet, Uranus was oblivious to his wife's plans. Gaia lured Uranus down to the earth so he would lose most of his power while Cronus and his brothers hid themselves. As soon as Uranus came down, Cronus's Titan brothers pinned him to the floor while Cronus took the sickle Gaia made and castrated his father. The ichor from him fell on the earth and the Furies, Nymphs, Satyrs, and Meliai were all born from it. Cronus then threw Uranus' remains into the sea as a gesture of disgrace to Oceanus, who had refused to help take down their father. From the spot where Uranus' genitalia landed formed sea foam, where from Aphrodite subsequently emerged. Uranus then cursed Cronus, stating that his child would come to overthrow him, just as he had done to him. Cronus at first didn't think much about this though he later became scared of the curse causing him to swallow all his children except Zeus. Nothing was mentioned about Uranus afterwards, since his form was spread so thin that was never able to form a consciousness again.
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