Uranus (Sky)

The sky and the god of the sky. Uranus was the son of Gaea and possibly of Aether. Uranus married his mother and became the first supreme ruler of the world.

(According to the Orphic myth, Gaea and Uranus were not mother and son. Rather they were sister and brother. They were the children of Protogonus (Phanes) and Nyx.)

Uranus was the father by his mother Gaea, of the Hundred-handed, the Cyclopes, and the Titans. When Gaea bore the Hundred-handed (Hecatoncheires) and Cyclopes, their ugliness caused him to imprison his children within the body of the earth (Gaea). Uranus ruled the universe until Gaea roused her children to rebel against his rule. The youngest of the Titans, Cronus, castrated his father with a sickle and flung his genitals into the sea. From the foam that formed about the sea, Aphrodite was born.

The Giants, Erinyes, and Meliae were born from his blood that fell on earth (Gaea).

See Creation, Theogony of Hesiod.

According to Diodorus Siculus, Uranus was a mortal king who was deified at his death. Uranus was married to Titaea (Gaea) and he was the father of 45 sons, of which 15 of them were known as the Titans. Uranus was the first ruler of the humans. His eldest daughter Basileia (Theia) ruled after him, with her husband Hyperion. See Creation, Cosmogony of Diodorus Siculus.