Uranus

Uranus, or Ouranos, was a Greek primordial god. In Roman mythology, Uranus was known as Caelus.

Abode
Uranus was the primordial god the skies and heavens.

Depiction
Uranus doesn't appear in early Greek art but he was imagined as being gigantic and laying on all fours over the earth, being the personification of the sky.

Parentage
According to Hesiod, Uranus was the son of Gaea alone. However, other sources state that he was the son of Aether and Gaea. In Cicero's De Natura Deorum, he claims that Uranus was the son of Aether and Hemera. In the Orphic Hymns, Uranus is said to be the son of Nyx.

Downfall
After Gaea's creation, she mothered several children without a father, one of whom was Uranus. Gaea and Uranus married and they had several sets of children. Their first set of children with the Titans. There were twelve Titans and they were very beautiful deities. The second set of children that Gaea bore were the Cyclopes. There were three Cyclopes but each only had one eye in the middle of their forehead. Gaea loved them just as she loved the Titans, but Uranus thought they were ugly and he threw them into Tartarus, causing Gaea great amounts of pain. The third and final set of children that Gaea had were the Hecatoncheires. There were three deities in this set and they each had fifty heads and one hundred arms. Again, Gaea loved them but Uranus hated them and threw them into Tartarus, causing Gaea even more pain.

Gaea grew resentful of Uranus and went to her six Titan sons and asked them to take a sickle that she had made from the hardest materials in the earth and to overthrow their father. Her eldest five sons were too afraid to challenge their father, but her youngest, Cronus, willingly took the sickle. Cronus recruited the help of four of his brothers and devised a plan to overthrow their father. When Uranus came down from the sky to lay with Gaea, the four brothers of Cronus, who were all at the four pillars of the earth, grabbed onto their father and held him in place. Cronus snuck underneath Uranus and castrated his father and threw his genitals into the sea, creating the sea foam.

After his downfall, Uranus predicted that his sons would be punished for their crimes, which was later fulfilled when Zeus and his siblings overthrew Cronus and his siblings.

Relationships

 * Parents: Gaea
 * Children with no mother: Aphrodite
 * Children with Gaea: Oceanus, Coeus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus, Cronus, Theia, Rhea, Themis, Tethys, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, The Cyclopes, The Hecatoncheires
 * Children born from the blood of Uranus and Gaea: The Erinyes, The Gigantes, The Meliae, The Curetes