Uranus

Uranus
Primordial God of Air, Cloud, Cosmos, Ether, Empyrean, Firmament, Heaven, Lift, Nimbus, Rain, Sky, Space, Sphere, Universe, Vault, and Welkin.
General Information
Species	God (sky father)
Aliases	Akom Akomides Aion Ouranos
Titles	Father Sky
Symbols	Zodiac Wheel
Relationships
Parents	Hesiod: Gaia (alone) Aether and Gaia Aether and Hemera Nyx
Siblings	Pontus, the Ourea, the Titans, the Hecatoncheires, the Cyclopes, the Gigantes, the Meliae, the Erinyes, Nereus, Thaumas, Phorcys, Ceto, Eurybia, Typhon, Erichthonius
Consorts	Gaia
Children	The Titans, the Hecatoncheires, the Cyclopes, the Gigantes, the Meliae, the Erinyes, Aphrodite
Grandchildren	The Potamoi, the Oceanids, Leto, Asteria, Perses, Pallas, Astraeus, Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus, Menoetius, Helios, Selene, Eos, Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, Zeus, the Horae, the Moirai, the Muses
Affiliation	Protogenoi
Counterparts	Aion
Languages
English	Uranus
Hellēnikḗ(Ancient Greek)	Ουρανος
Latina(Latin)	V́ranvs
Latina nova(New Latin)	Ūranus
Equivalents
Arabian equivalent	Allah
Israelite equivalent	Yahweh
Levantine equivalent	ʾIlu
Proto-Indo-European equivalent	*h₁wér-u-nos
Roman equivalent	Aeon-Caelus

Uranus (/ˈjɵːrənəs/ YOOR-ə-nəs, /jɵːˈrɛjnəs/ yoor-AY-nəs; Ancient Greek Οὐρᾰνός, Ourănós [oːranós] meaning "sky", "space", “celestial sphere”, “Universe”) was the primal Greek god personifying the sky and one of the Greek primordial deities. Uranus is associated with the Roman god Caelus. In Ancient Greek literature, Uranus or Father Sky was the son and husband of Gaia, Mother Earth. 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. Elemental Earth, Sky, and Styx might be joined, however, in a solemn invocation in Homeric epic.

Etymology

The most probable etymology traces the name to a Proto-Greek form *Worsănós (Ϝορσᾰνός) enlarged from *worsó- (also found in Greek ouréō 'to urinate', Sanskrit varṣá 'rain', Hittite warša- 'fog, mist'). The basic Indo-European root is *ṷérs- 'to rain, moisten' (also found in Greek eérsē 'dew', Sanskrit várṣati 'to rain', Avestan aiβi.varəšta 'it rained on'), making Ouranos the 'rainmaker'. A less likely etymology is a derivative with meaning 'the one standing on high' from PIE *wérso- (cf. Sanskrit várṣman 'height, top', Lithuanian viršùs 'upper, highest seat', Russian verx 'height, top'). Of some importance in the comparative study of Indo-European mythology is the identification by Georges Dumézil (1934) of Uranus with the Vedic deity Váruṇa (Mitanni Aruna), god of the sky and waters, but the etymological equation is considered untenable.

Genealogy

Olympian Genealogy in Greek mythology

Chaos                                           Gaia                                             Uranus   Gaia                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Iapetus   Clymene         Cronus   Rhea                     Coeus   Phoebe           Themis   Zeus   Dione     Mnemosyne   Zeus   Eurynome                                                                                                                                                                         Atlas   Pleione                         Metis   Zeus     Leto   Zeus                     Aphrodite             The Muses   Graces                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Athena                       Moirai   Hours   Nemesis   Tyche Zeus   Maia                                                                                                                                                                                                       Hermes                                                     Artemis   Apollo   Coronis                                                                                                                                                                       Asclepius                                                               Hera   Zeus   Demeter   Poseidon   Amphitrite   Hades   Persephone   Hestia                                                                                               Persephone             Triton                                                                       Arion   Despoina                                                                                                                                       Hebe   Heracles   Eileithyia   Eris   Ares   Aphrodite   Hephaestus                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         AlexiAres   Anicetus                 Harmonia   Cadmus of Thebes   Eros   Anteros   Himeros   Hymenaios   Pothos   Peitho   Deimos   Phobos                                                                               Zeus   Semele                                                                             Dionysus

Preceded by: Chaos

King of the Greek Gods Mythic

Succeeded by Cronus (Contested with Ophion)