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.