![]() "Verily at first Khaos (Chaos, the Chasm) came to be, but next wide-bosomed Gaia (Gaea, Earth). Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or C7th B.C.) : Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.ĬLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES URANUS & THE BIRTH OF THE COSMOS Aeon-Uranus, Gaea and the Carpi, Greco-Roman mosaic C3rd A.D., Glyptothek Munich I. 180.) Out of the drops of his blood sprang the Gigantes, the Melian nymphs, and according to some, Silenus, and from the foam gathering around his limbs in the sea, sprang Aphrodite (Hes. Uranus hated his children, and immediately after their birth, he confined them in Tartarus, in consequence of which he was unmanned and dethroned by Cronos at the instigation of Gaea. 22, 23), he also was the father of Mercury (Hermes) by Dia, and of Venus by Hemera. 17), but is also called the husband of Gaea, and by her the father of Oceanus, Coeus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus, Theia, Rheia, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe Tethys, Cronos, of the Cyclopes, Brontes, Steropes, Arges, and of the Hecatoncheires Cottus, Briareus and Gyes. U′RANUS (Ouranos), the Latin Caelus, a son of Gaea (Hes. AITNA (by Gaia) (Simonides Frag 52, Scholiast on Theocritus 1.65) APHRODITE (born of his castrated genitals cast into the sea) (Hesiod Theogony 188, Philostratus Elder 2.1, Apuleius 6.6, Nonnus Dionysiaca 1.86, et. THE PHAIAKAI (Phaeacian Race of Men) (born of his castration to Gaia) (Alcaeus Frag 441) THE ERINYES, THE TELKHINES (born of the blood of his castration) (Tzetzes on Hesiod's Theogony) THE ERINYES, THE GIGANTES (born of the blood of his castration to Gaia) (Apollodorus 1.3, 1.34) THE ERINYES, THE GIGANTES ( KOURETES?), THE MELIAI (born of the blood of his castration to Gaia) (Hesiod Theogony 184) OKEANOS, THEMIS, TARTAROS, PONTOS, THE TITANES, BRIAREUS, GYES, STEROPES, ATLAS, HYPERION, KOIOS, KRONOS, RHEIA, MNEMOSYNE, DIONE, THE ERINYES (by Gaia) ? (Hyginus Preface NB text is corrupt, Ouranos should be inserted as the father from Oceanus) THE KYKLOPES, THE HEKATONKHEIRES (by Gaia) (Eumelus Titanomachia Frag 1) THE TITANES (as above), THE TITANIDES (as above plus DIONE), THE KYKLOPES, THE HEKATONKHEIRES (by Gaia) (Apollodorus 1.2) THE TITANES ( OKEANOS, KRONOS, TETHYS) (by Gaia) (Aeschylus Prometheus Bound 207) (by Gaia) (Hesiod Theogony 135, Diodorus Siculus 5.66.1) THE TITANES ( OKEANOS, KOIOS, KRIOS, HYPERION, IAPETOS, KRONOS), THE TITANIDES ( THEIA, RHEIA, THEMIS, MNEMOSYNE, TETHYS), THE KYKLOPES, THE HEKATONKHEIRES ![]() Born of the WORLD EGG formed by KHRONOS (Orphic Rhapsodies 66, Orphic Frag 54 & 57, Epicuras Frag) OFFSPRING AITHER & HEMERA (Hyginus Preface, Cicero De Natura Deorum 3.17) AKMON (Alcman Frag 61, Callimachus Frag 498) GAIA (no father) (Hesiod Theogony 126, Nonnus Dionysiaca 27.50) In the Roman era he was often depicted as Aion, god of eternal time, in the form of a man holding the zodiac-wheel, standing above the reclining Gaia (Earth). Ouranos does not appear in early Greek art but Egyptian depictions of their sky-goddess Nut demonstrate how he was imagined-as a gigantic, star-spangled man with long arms and legs, resting on all fours, with his finger-tips in the far east, his toes in the far west, and his arching body raised to form the dome of the sky. Ouranos prophesied the fall of the Titanes and the punishments they would suffer for their crimes-a prophecy brought to fruition by Zeus who deposed the five brothers and cast them into the pit of Tartaros. ![]() The sky-god's blood fell upon the earth, producing the avenging Erinyes and the Gigantes (Giants). Four of these positioned themselves at the corners of the world, ready to grasp their father as he descended to lie with Earth, while the fifth, Kronos (Cronus), took his place in the centre and there castrated Ouranos with an adamantine sickle. Gaia suffered immense pain and persuaded her Titan sons to rebel. He locked the eldest of these-the giant Kyklopes (Cyclopes) and Hekatonkheires (Hecatoncheires)-away inside the belly of Earth. Ouranos and Gaia had twelve sons and six daughters. Ouranos was the literal sky, just as his consort Gaia (Gaea) was the earth. The Greeks imagined the sky as a solid dome of brass, decorated with stars, whose edges descended to rest upon the outermost limits of the flat earth. OURANOS (Uranus) was the primordial god ( protogenos) of the sky. Sky, Heaven Aeon-Uranus and the Zodiac-Wheel, Greco-Roman mosaic C3rd A.D., Glyptothek Munich ![]()
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