Uranus

Uranus is the Greek god of the Sky. Together with Gaia, they were the parents of the first generation of Titans and as a result, the ancestors of most of the Greek gods.

Olympian Creation Myth
In the beginning, Uranus came every night to cover the earth and mate with Gaia, but he hated the children she bore him. Uranus imprisoned Gaia's youngest children in Tartarus, deep within the Earth, where they caused pain to Gaia. She shaped a great flint-bladed sickle and asked her sons to castrate Uranus. Only Cronus, youngest and most ambitious of the Titans, was willing to do as she asked. He ambushed his father and castrated him, casting the severed testicles into the sea.

From the blood that spilled from Uranus onto the Earth came forth the Giants, the Erinyes (Furies), the Meliae (ash-tree nymphs), and the Telchines. From the genitals in the sea came Aphrodite. After Uranus was deposed, Cronus re-imprisoned the Hekatonkheires and Cyclopes in Tartarus. Uranus and Gaia then prophesied that Cronus in turn was destined to be overthrown by his own son, so the Titan attempted to avoid this fate by swallowing his young. Through deception by Rhea, Zeus avoided this fate.