Ouranos is the Greek name of the sky, latinized as Uranus. In Greek mythology it is personified as the son and husband of Gaia, Mother Earth. The two of them were ancestral to most of the Greek gods. His equivalent in Roman mythology was Caelus ("sky"). He was originally the same Indo-European god as the Hindu equivalent Varuna.
Uranus hid the youngest children of Gaia, the one-hundred armed giants (Hecatonchires) and the one-eyed giants, the Cyclopes, in Tartarus so that they would not see the light, rejoicing in this evil doing. This caused pain to Gaia (Tartarus was her bowels) so she created grey flint and shaped a great sickle and gathered together Cronus and his brothers to ask them to obey her. Only Cronus was willing to do the deed, so Gaia gave him the sickle and set him in ambush. Cronus jumped out and lopped off his father's testicles, casting them behind him. From his blood on the Earth came forth the Gigantes, Erinyes and Meliae. From the testicles of Uranus in the sea came forth Aphrodite. For this, Uranus called his sons Titans, meaning "strainers" for they strained and did presumptuously a fearful deed, for which vengeance would come afterwards. After Uranus was deposed, however, Cronus returned the Hecatonchires and Cyclopes to Tartarus.
Uranus is the ancient Greek deity of the Heavens, the earliest supreme god.
Uranus was the son and mate of Gaia, the father of Cronus (Saturn), and of the Cyclopes and Titans (predecessors of the Olympian gods).
Uranus' magnetic field is odd in that it is not centered on the center of the planet and is tilted almost 60 degrees with respect to the axis of rotation.
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