Uranus or Father of the sky was the son and husband of Gaia, Mother Earth. According to Hesiod's Theogony, Uranus was conceived by Gaia alone, while other sources cite Aether was his father. Uranus and Gaia were the parents of the first generations of Titans, and the ancestors of most of the Greek gods.

Most Greeks considered Uranus to be primordial, and gave him no parentage, believing him to have been born from Chaos, the primal for of the universe. However, in Theogony, Hesiod claims Uranus to be the offspring of Gaia, the earth goddess. Alcman and Callimachus elaborate that Uranus was fathered by Aether, the god of heavenly light and the upper air.

According to several different people, Uranus had different mothers and different fathers. Greek mythology states that Gaia is his mother with no father considering Gaia conceived him alone. In the Olympian creation myth, as Hesiod states it in the Theogony, Uranus came every night to cober the earth and mate with Gaia, but he hated the children she bore him. Hesiod named their first six sons and six daughters the Titans, the three one hundred handed giants and the Hekatonkheires, and the one eyed giants the Cyclopes.

Uranus imprisoned Gaia's youngest children in Tartarus, deep within Earth where they caused pain to Gaia. The graphic nature of Uranus is not something that I will post here. Uranus was scarcely regarded as anthropomorphic. He was simply the sky, which was conceived by the ancients as an overarching dome or roof of bronze, held in place (or turned on an axis) by the Titan Atlas.