The mythology of Uranus / Mitología de Urano.

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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 gender identity.

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Urano era el dios griego primigenio que personifica el cielo. Su equivalente en Roma fue Caelus. En la literatura griega antigua, era el hijo y esposo de Gaia, la Madre Tierra. Urano fue concebido por Gaia solo, pero ambos fueron los padres de la primera generación de Titanes, y así, los antepasados ​​de la mayoría de los dioses griegos. Sin embargo, ningún culto dirigido directamente a Urano sobrevivió hasta la época clásica, y Urano no aparece entre los temas habituales de la cerámica pintada griega. Sin embargo es recordado por su papel un mito importante, el nacimiento de Afrodita. En la versión más famosa del mito, su nacimiento fue consecuencia de una castración: Cronos cortó los genitales de Urano y los arrojó al mar. La espuma de los genitales dio lugar a Afrodita. Es una curiosidad que mientras que el resto de los planetas tienen nombres romanos, Urano es un nombre derivado del griego. En el siglo XIX el término uraniano refiría a personas con problemas de identidad de género.

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