Uranus.
The personification of the heavens in Greek myth, Uranus was both the son and husband of Gaia (Ge), the earth. He sired the Titans as well as the three Cyclopes and the three Hecatoncheires. These six monsters he hated and feared, and he hid them in the body of their mother. This aroused Gaia’s wrath and she incited the Titans to overthrow their father. Cronus (Saturn) castrated Uranus with a sickle, and the Titans released their brothers. Uranus’s blood fell on the earth, giving birth to the Erinyes (Furies) and the Giants; in some myths Aphrodite was said to have been born from the foam that surrounded the severed genitals after Cronus threw them into the sea.
      
       Classical Sources. Hesiod, Theogony 126-28, 147-210. Orphic Hymns, 4, “To Uranus.” Cicero, De natura deomrn 3.44. Apollodorus, Biblioteca 1.1.1—4.