How Did Uranus Influence Ancient Greek Culture

The Ancient Greeks lead a very complex life with a system of beliefs and practices not a lot of people could understand. One of those beliefs was in a system of Gods and Goddesses that all ruled over something. One of the God’s was Uranus. He was the God of the sky and the Father of the 12 main titans. Uranus was described as many different things by many different people. Uranus was the literal sky. Some said that he was very long; so long that his edges descended to rest upon the outermost limits of the flat earth. It was also said that his fingertips were in the farthest East, his toes were in the farthest west and his body arching to form a dome that reaches across the whole sky (“Ouranos”1). This arching dome was spangled with stars and …show more content…
She asked for all her sons to help her with it. Four of her sons placed themselves at the corners of the world ready to catch their father when he came to lay with Gaea. The other son that helped hugely was Cronus. He was hidden under their bed with an adamantine sickle. He was supposed to use this sickle to cut Uranus when he came to lay with Gaea (“Ouranos” 1). This cut supposed to make Uranus unable to produce any more children as Gaea was in an immense amount of pain from all the children they have already produced. Then, Uranus promised the fall of the Titans and harsh punishments for the crimes they committed against him. These would be enforced by Zeus who deposed the five brothers and cast them into the pit of Tartarus. The blood that fell to the Earth from the cut ironically produced more creatures. It produced the Giants, the Ash Tree Nymphs, and the Erinnyes (Heisod 1). The blood that fell to the ocean, caused an uprising of foam from the sea. Out of this foam arose a very well-known Greek goddess, Aphrodite. This another one of the many reasons why Uranus and Gaea were very important to the history of Greek …show more content…
He did die, but it has just not been found or proven how he died. Of course, a lot of people who have studied this subject have said their own different theories and possible explanations to his death, but no one knows which one of those theories is true. Some people say that he could have possibly withdrawn from the Earth in some sort of way. Other people say that he just died because of the cut and he bled out, which that seems to be the most logical explanation but some people are still not convinced. There are countless possible explanations to his death but what really matters is what happened after