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Ouranos

[ oo-rey-nuhs ]

noun

, Classical Mythology.


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Everybody has observed that the stars rise up off the earth, like the bees sprung from the blood of Ouranos.

So Cronos took an iron sickle and mutilated Ouranos in such a way, enfin, as to divorce him a thoro.

Hail, Mother of the Gods, thou wife of starry Ouranos, and freely in return for my ode give me sufficient livelihood.

Ouranos, however, came to her when he listed and attempted to kill her children.

Instead of Nirvana, their heaven was Ouranos—the sky above them.

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