Uranus
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Sep 28, 2026
Rick SpenceGUEST
And he doesn't really take much time.
Jeff LippmanHOST
He's like the Anu, the Burr, the Uranus.
Jeff LippmanHOST
He's the heavens, but he sort of created the heavens and peaced out.
Rick SpenceGUEST
Yeah, and he's on a bliss cloud or something in a higher dimension.
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Bill HavankyNARRATOR
Origin of the World, First Dynasty, Uranus and Gaia, Silas and Terra, in Myths and Legends Around the World, Collection 17, from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome.
Bill HavankyNARRATOR
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Bill HavankyNARRATOR
Origin of the World, First Dynasty, Uranus and Gaia, Caelus and Terra, by E. M. Behrens.
Bill HavankyNARRATOR
The ancient Greeks had several different theories with regard to the origin of the world, but the generally accepted notion was that before this world came into existence, there was in its place a confused mass of shapeless elements called chaos.
Bill HavankyNARRATOR
these elements becoming at length consolidated, by what means does not appear, resolved themselves into two widely different substances, the lighter portion of which, soaring on high, formed the sky or firmament, and constituted itself into a vast overarching vault, which protected the firm and solid mass beneath.
RobertHOST
Astronomers outside of Britain rejected that.
RobertHOST
But German astronomer Johann Alert Bode proposed naming it Uranus after the ancient Greek god of the sky.
RobertHOST
O-U-R-A-N-O-S, Ouranus, to fit the mythological name and tradition of other planets.
JacobHOST
Ouranus or Uranus?
RobertHOST
Ouranus.
RobertHOST
But on that note, all these planets are named after Roman gods, mythological figures.
RobertHOST
Nobody knows who named Earth.
Geoffrey EdwardsNARRATOR
And am I not right in asserting that there are two goddesses? The elder one, having no mother, who is called the heavenly Aphrodite.
Geoffrey EdwardsNARRATOR
She is the daughter of Uranus, the younger, who is the daughter of Zeus and Dione.
Geoffrey EdwardsNARRATOR
Her we call Common.
Geoffrey EdwardsNARRATOR
And the love which is her fellow-worker is rightly named Common.
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Bill HavankeNARRATOR
Origin of the World: First Dynasty, Uranus and Gaia, Coelus and Terra.
Bill HavankeNARRATOR
In Myths and Legends Around the World, Collection 17, from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome.
Bill HavankeNARRATOR
This is a LibriVox recording.
Bill HavankeNARRATOR
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Bill HavankeNARRATOR
For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Read by Bill Havanke.
Bill HavankeNARRATOR
Origin of the World: First Dynasty, Uranus and Gaia, Coelus and Terra by E.M. Berens.
Bill HavankeNARRATOR
The ancient Greeks had several different theories with regard to the origin of the world, but the generally accepted notion was that before this world came into existence, there was in its place a confused mass of shapeless elements called Chaos.
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When over-curious Pandora, not yet having released her box full of ills, men had neither care nor sickness nor old age, but, after centuries of blissful calm, faded like flowers and became kindly spirit guardians of their successors.
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Yet amid this charming serenity, Cronus could never forget the curse of his father Uranus, whom he had overthrown, and the prophecy that he himself should in his turn be cast down by his own children.
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Wherefore, being resolved to defeat that prophecy, he swallowed each child his wife Rhea brought forth as soon as it was born.
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When Rhea had thus lost five babes, Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, and Poseidon, and knew herself about to bear yet another, she made her prayer to Uranus, her ancient sire, imploring counsel and aid.
speaker_7NARRATOR
But only a faint, vast murmur thrilled through the sky.
speaker_7NARRATOR
My voice is but the voice of winds and tides.
SandraHOST
I mean, are the Leviathans something that would be similar to the Titans? Or were Leviathans ever a thing? The
FedeGUEST
Leviathans are from a different... kind of mythology? The titans are okay so basically when the world was according to Greek mythology there were these primordial deities like Kronos which is the time for example Uranus is the sky.
FedeGUEST
Rhea is the earth.
FedeGUEST
They were all titans.
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Why is Zeus carrying a pregnant goddess within him? The oldest surviving extended account begins with a family history of rulers trying to prevent the next generation from taking power.
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In Hesiod's Theogony, Uranus' Skye suppresses children born from Gaia Earth.
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Their son Cronus overthrows him.
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Cronus then receives a warning that one of his own children will replace him.
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The Theogony is mythic genealogy, not a record of historical events, but its sequence gives the later story its pressure.
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Zeus inherits a cosmos in which divine sovereignty has repeatedly passed from father to son.
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Uranus loses power.
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Cronus loses power.
Roger SpurrGUEST
In Apollodorus, he writes about this.
Roger SpurrGUEST
He says the first thing was Gaia and the sky, which is Uranus.
Roger SpurrGUEST
They made it.
Roger SpurrGUEST
And they had monsters.
Roger SpurrGUEST
100 hands and 50 heads.
Roger SpurrGUEST
And they were monsters.
Roger SpurrGUEST
And Uranus locked them up inside Tartarus because he couldn't stand them.
Roger SpurrGUEST
And then she had the Cyclopses.
LavishHOST
I've got two topics that we could talk about tonight.
LavishHOST
Uh, we can talk about Uranus or we can talk about cock.
MalachiGUEST
My anus.
LavishHOST
Uranus.
MalachiGUEST
Yeah, we can talk about that.
LavishHOST
You want to talk about cock?
MalachiGUEST
Or my anus.
MalachiGUEST
We can talk about Uranus.
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