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Uranus

deity sky Greek corroborated · 17

Uranus is the father of the Gigantes. His blood impregnated Gaia after he was castrated by Cronus.

↻ synthesized from 17 sources

When

First attested
800 BCE
Attested period
-800 – 2020
Historical notes
Primordial sky god overthrown by the Titans in Hesiod's Theogony.

Relationships

parent of
Gigantes, Cronus, Basileia, Aphrodite, Coeus, Dione, Titans, Cyclops, Themis, Oceanus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus, Theia, Phoebe, Tethys, Cronos, Steropes, Arges, Cottus, Briareos, Gyges, Aphrodite Urania, Venus, Rhea, giant, Porphyrion, Brontes, Mnemosyne, Picolous, Atlas
co occurs with
H₂éwsōs, Leto, Asteria, Pontus, Terra, Hyperion, Theia, Phoebe, Thaumas, Phorcys, Ceto, Eurybia, Erebus, Nyx, Chronus, Anu, Geb, Nut, Ki, Atea, Vatea, Dyaúṣ-pitṛ, Pṛthvī-mātṛ, Dione, Aphrodite Pandemos, Typhon, Tartarus, Titans, Astraeus, Ephialtes, Iapetus, Coeus, Otus, Aloadae, Aegaeon, Momu, Cupid, Voluptas, Castitas, Pulchritudo, Cronus, Poseidon, Demeter, Rhea, Hestia, Eos, Selene, Athena, Themis, Persephone, Atropos, Eurynome, Metis, Eirene, Muses, Eunomia, Dike, Mnemosyne, Clotho, Lachesis, Aglaea, Euphrosyne, Brontes, Thalia, Clymene, Calliope, Terpsichore, Erato, Clio, Euterpe, Melpomene, Polyhymnia, Hecate, Zeus, Nereus, Wākea, Artemis (Diana), Astarte, Atargatis, Mercury, Hera, Hades, Helios, Heracles, Apollo, Artemis, Urania
enemy of
Hyperion, Cronus
consort of
Gæa, Gaia, Titaea
syncretized with
Caelus
served by
Campe
creator of
giant, Erinyes, Meliae, Aphrodite
sibling of
Ourea
child of
Gaia, Aether, Hemera

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Mentioned by

and 9 more

Sources

wikipedia (16)
  1. List of Greek mythological creatures
  2. Hyperion (Titan)
  3. *H₂éwsōs
  4. Phoebe (Titaness)
  5. Theia
  6. Dione (Titaness)
  7. Gaia
  8. Hemera
  9. Rangi and Papa
  10. Giants (Greek mythology)
  11. Trojan War
  12. Atlas (mythology)
  13. Zeus
  14. Primavera (Botticelli)
  15. Mnemosyne
  16. Themis
encyclopedia (1)
  1. Aphrodite (Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed.) (1911)
    peer reviewed

Source passages

“They were the offspring of Gaia (Earth), born from the blood that fell when Uranus (Sky) was castrated by their Titan son Cronus”

#4578 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“the children of Gaia and Uranus. In the Theogony, Uranus imprisoned all the children that Gaia bore him, before he was overthrown...as Cronus castrated him.”

#16730 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“Scholars posit similarities based on her connection with a sky deity as her father— Zeus or Uranus”

#18295 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“Phoebe is a Titaness, one of the twelve (or thirteen) divine children born to Uranus (Sky) and Gaia (Earth).”

#18914 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“In this account Basileia was the eldest daughter of king Uranus, who excelled in prudence and rearer her own brothers, earning the epithet 'Great Mother' from them. She succeeded her father to the throne, and took her brother Hyperion to husband in order to produce heirs.”

#19059 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001