Caelus was the Latin name that the Romans used for the Greek sky god Uranus. Latin is the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... Ouranos is the Greek name of the sky, latinized as Uranus. ...
Caelus (sometimes spelt Coelus), was, by marriage to Tellus (Greek: Gaia), the father of Saturn (Cronus), Ops (Rhea), Oceanus and the other Titans, as well as the Gigantes. Alone, Caelus was the father of Venus (Aphrodite). Image:Titans gaia. ... Rhea tricking Cronus with a wrapped stone. ... Rhea (she who flows) was the Titaness daughter of Uranus and of Gaia. ... Oceanus or Okeanos refers to the ocean, which the Greeks and Romans regarded as a river circling the world. ... In Greek mythology, the Gigantes were giants who sprang forth from the blood of the wounded Uranus after he was castrated by Cronus. ... Venus is the Roman goddess of love, equivalent to Greek Aphrodite and Etruscan Turan. ... Aphrodite (ΑφÏοδίτη, risen from sea-foam) is the Greek goddess of love and beauty. ...
Caelus was later equated with the Greek god of the heavens, Uranus, who was vastly more important to the Greeks than Caelus was to the Romans.
Caelus is often associated with the sign of the zodiac, Aquarius.
Caelus is sometimes associated with Terra, represented in sculptural art as an old, bearded man holding a robe billowing over his head in the form of an arch, a conventional sign of deity.
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