| OURANUS.
This is the correct transliterative spelling of Uranus, the father of Cronos (also correctly spelled), who in turn was the father of Zeus.
Greek theistic mythology begins with Chaos, (the void) out of the which came Gaia (the Earth), Eros (Love), Tartarus (the Abyss), and Erebus (Darkness). Gaia gave birth to Uranus (the Sky) who impregnated her to create the Titans, one of whom was Cronos (Time).
Uranus/Ouranus is considered the first true God, as all the predescessors were merely "primal forces".
HOWEVER, there is no standard for Greek mythology as there was really no such uniform place or nation as Greece, what we know as Greece was a collection of island cultures, the Hellenistic differed from the Corinthian differed from the Mycaenian, etc, etc.The above is the most widespread & most frequently recognised, taken form the writings of Hesiod.
And all the Greek gods were appropriated from other cultures anyway! |