Uranus

Uranus was the primeval personification of the sky. In Ancient Greek literature, Uranus was the son and husband of Gaia. According to Hesiod's Theogony, Uranus was conceived by Gaia alone, but other sources cite Aether as his father. Uranus and Gaia were the parents of the first generation of Titans and the ancestors of most of the Greek gods but no cult addressed directly to Uranus survived into classical times and Uranus does not appear among the usual themes of Greek painted pottery.

His Roman equivalent was Caelus.

Genealogy
In Hesiod's Theogony, Uranus is the offspring of Gaia. Alcman and Callimachus elaborate that Uranus was fathered by Aether. Under the influence of the philosophers, Cicero claims that he was the offspring of the ancient gods Aether and Hemera. According to Orphic Hymans, Uranus was the son of Nyx.

Creation Myth
In the Olympian creation myth, Uranus came every night to cover the earth and mate with Gaia, but he hated the children she bore him. Hesiod named their first six sons and daughters the Titans, the three one-hundred-handed giants the Hekatonkheires and the one-eyed giants the Cyclopes.

Uranus imprisoned Gaia's youngest children in Tartarus, deep within Earth, where they caused pain to Gaia. She shaped a great flint-bladed sickle and asked her Titan sons 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 Meliae, and, according to some, the Telchines. From the genitals in the sea came forth Aphrodite.

Consorts and Children
Uranus and Gaia had many children, including;
 * The Cyclopes
 * The Hekatonkheires
 * The Erinyes
 * The Gigantes
 * The Meliae
 * Aphrodite
 * Coeus
 * Crius
 * Cronus
 * Oceanus
 * Hyperion
 * Iapetus
 * Mnemosyne
 * Phoebe
 * Rhea
 * Tethys
 * Theia
 * Themis