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<p> (Lat. Coelus), the heaven, in [[Greek]] mythology, was the progenitor of the whole line of [[Grecian]] gods. His first children were the Hecatonchires (Centimanes). Afterwards he begot, through G a, the Cyclops. These were imprisoned in [[Tartarus]] because of their great strength. This so moved their mother to anger that she incited her subsequently born children, the Titanes, against the father, who drove him from the throne of the earth, after Kronus (Saturnus), his younger son, had, with a diamond sickle, disqualified him for the-further production of children. The sea received the mutilated organs, which gave life to Venus. From the blood which was spilled there sprang the Giants, the Furies, and the Melian nymphs. See Smith, Dict. of Gr. and Rom. Biog. and Mythol. s.v. </p>
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<p> In the Greek mythology the son of [[Gaia]] (the Earth), and by her the father of the Titans; he hated his children, and at birth thrust them down to Tartarus, to the grief of Gaia, at whose instigation Kronos, the youngest born, unmanned him, and seized the throne of the Universe, to be himself supplanted in turn by his son Zeus. </p>
 
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<ref name="term_64170"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/uranus Uranus from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref>
<ref name="term_81052"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/uranus+(2) Uranus from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref>
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Uranus [1]

In the Greek mythology the son of Gaia (the Earth), and by her the father of the Titans; he hated his children, and at birth thrust them down to Tartarus, to the grief of Gaia, at whose instigation Kronos, the youngest born, unmanned him, and seized the throne of the Universe, to be himself supplanted in turn by his son Zeus.

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