The mythology of Uranus / Mitología de Urano.

Picture by/Imagen de Christina Balit Uranus was the primal Greek god personifying the sky. His equivalent in Rome was Caelus. In Ancient Greek literature, he was the son and husband of Gaia, the Mother Earth. Uranus was conceived by Gaia alone, but both were the parents of the first generation of Titans, and so, the ancestors of most of the Greek gods. Nevertheless no cult addressed directly to Uranus survived into Classical times, and Uranus does not appear among the usual themes of Greek painted pottery. Nevertheless he is remembered for his role one important myth, the birth of Aphrodite. In the most famous version of the myth, her birth was the consequence of a castration: Cronus severed Uranus' genitals and threw them behind him into the sea. The foam from his genitals gave rise to Aphrodite. It is anomalous that, while the other planets take Roman names, Uranus is a name derived from Greek. In the 19th-century the term uranian was referred to a person with problems of...