Uranus

The Sky, the large dome above the earth.

Parents

Gaia, or he appeared at the dawn of creation from Chaos

Important Relationships

Uranus was married to Gaia and they had many children. First two sets of triplets, the three Cyclopes who were large giants with only one eye, and the Hecatoncheires who had fifty faces and a hundred hands. Then they had six Titan sons and six Titan daughters, Oceanus, Koios, Krios, Hyperion, Iapetus, Cronus, Theia, Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne and Tethys. Uranus hid his first children, the Cyclopes and the Hecatoncheires away within the earth because he thought they were ugly. This caused Gaia pain and made her very angry, understandably because she loved all of her children, so she ordered her Titan children to kill their father with a sickle she had made. Cronus volunteered, because he was power hungry and knew that he could take over as king of the universe. His brothers Koios, Krios, Hyperion and Iapetus held down Uranus’s arms and legs and Cronus rewarded them with the corners of the earth to rule over. Before Cronus killed him Uranus predicted that Cronus would fall to his own son Zeus. Despite his human form being killed the dome of the sky stayed above the earth.