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Ouranos

noun
1.
(Greek mythology) god of the heavens; son and husband of Gaea and father of the Titans in ancient mythology.  Synonym: Uranus.





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... next, He who avenges; third, He who saves. In vegetation worship it is the Old Year who has committed Hubris, the sin of pride, in summer; the Winter who slays him; the New Year which shall save. In mythology the three successive Rulers of Heaven are given by Hesiod as Ouranos, Kronos, Zeus (cf. Prometheus, 965 ff.), but we cannot tell if Aeschylus accepted the Hesiodic story. Cf. note on l. 246, and Clytemnestra's blasphemy at ...
— Agamemnon • Aeschylus


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