Uranus

**Uranus**, also known as **Ouranos**, **Father Sky** or **Caelus**, was the Greek Primordial personifying the sky, the husband of Gaea and the grandfather of the gods.

## Overview

In Ancient Greek literature, according to Hesiod in his Theogony, Uranus was the son and husband of Gaea, Mother Earth. Uranus and Gaea were ancestors to most of the Greek gods, but no cult addressed directly to Uranus survived into classical times. Nonetheless, Ouranos is the catalyst that sets off a series of events regarding a son usurping a father in order to claim dominion over the cosmos.

## History

### Theogeny

In the Olympian creation myth, Uranus came every night to cover the earth and mate with Gaea, producing some of the most powerful offspring of any union between primordials. Hesiod named their first six sons and six daughters the Titans, the three one-hundred-armed giants the Hekatonkheir, and the one-eyed giants the Cyclopes.

### Children of Uranus

But despite the boundless potential within each of his offspring, Uranus hated the children that Gaea bore him. Uranus imprisoned Gaea's youngest children in Tartarus, deep within Earth, where they caused great pain to their mother Gaea. In retribution, she shaped a great flint-bladed sickle and pleaded with her sons for them to castrate Uranus. Only Cronus, youngest and most ambitious of the Titans, was willing: he ambushed his father and castrated him, casting the severed testicles into the sea. For this fearful deed, Uranus called his sons Titanes Theoi, or "Straining Gods." From the blood that spilled from Uranus onto the Earth came forth the Gigantes, the Erinyes (the avenging Furies), the Meliae (the ash-tree nymphs), and, according to some, the Telchines.

### Usurped by Cronus

In some versions of the myth it is Hyperion, along with Cronus, Iapetus, Krios, and Koios who together revolt against their father. When Uranus descended to the Earth to lay with Gaea, Hyperion along with Krios, Iapetos and Koios waited at the corners of the world and grabbed him as he came down. Cronus then was able to castrate his father with a sickle made by their mother.

After Uranus was deposed, Cronus re-imprisoned the Hekatonkheires and Cyclopes in Tartarus. Uranus and Gaea then prophesied that Cronus in turn was destined to be overthrown by his own son, and so the Titan attempted to avoid this fate by devouring his young. Zeus, through deception by his mother Rhea, avoided this fate. After the Titanomachy, Zeus punished the Titan Atlas by having hold up the heavens, which was in this case Uranus, to forever separate him from Gaea in the hopes of the latter to never mate with Uranus and attempt to produce children mighty enough to usurp the Olympians.

## Powers and Abilities

**Absolute Strength:** Uranus can generate limitless and unsurpassed physical strength, able to go toe-to-toe and even surpass the strongest of beings with nothing but the raw force of their physical blows.

**Alpha Physiology:** Uranus is vastly superior to any member of his species, learning and achieving quickly and effortlessly what takes years of hard work for others and growing substantially stronger and better with each challenge.

**Heaven Lordship:** Uranus has authority and duty in heaven. A place where Deities and Angels come together as well as the souls of heroes, and good people in perfect peace and joy.

**Cosmos Lordship:** Uranus has control of everything existing within their Universe.

**Nigh-Omnipotence:** Uranus possesses omnipotent-like-power but has a limitation that inhibits their potential to become an truly omnipotent being.

**Sky Father Physiology:** The Sky Father, personification of make up the sky and the heavens, and are conceived as reigning over the other Deities, which makes them normally one of the more powerful if not the most powerful Deities in their respected pantheons.

**Sky Deity Physiology:** Uranus with this ability either is or can transform into a Sky Deity, a god who represents or is associated with the skies and the air.