Ouranos
In Greek mythology, Ouranos represented the sky or heaven. He was
both the son and husband of Gaia, the earth,
by whom he fathered first the hundred-handed giants and the
Cyclops, whom he banished to Tartarus,
and later the titans. Gaia, angry because her children were
imprisoned, set the Titans against Ouranos. Cronos, their leader, castrated Ouranos and
succeeded him as ruler of the universe. According to Hesiod's
Theogony Aphrodite was born of the foam
of Ouranos' discarded genitals as they fell in the sea. Blood
falling from the wound on earth engendered the Furies.