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  • In my trilogy Orphans of Chaos, Saturn, who is described as the creator of the universe, is a Gnostic god, An Evil God of Evil, who rebelled against High Heaven, called by the Greeks Ouranos or Uranus: but I also have a plethora of lesser gods running around in the foreground stirring up trouble for my characters.

    MIND MELD: Gods by the Bushel 2009

  • To that end, it does a wonderful job showing how the Earth (Gaea) and Sky (Ouranos) spawned the Titans and the ensuing conflicts that emerge between them.

    REVIEW: Zeus - King of the Gods (Olympians #1) by George O'Connor 2010

  • Gaea prophesizes that Kronos will in turn be defeated by his child, just as he defeated Ouranos.

    REVIEW: Zeus - King of the Gods (Olympians #1) by George O'Connor 2010

  • Ouranos, for example, banishes some of his children to the underworld for being deformed.

    REVIEW: Zeus - King of the Gods (Olympians #1) by George O'Connor 2010

  • Adalana sang a nightingale song from the Ode of Ouranos, and Aunt Cook scolded someone in the kitchen, but I hardly heard them.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • Adalana sang a nightingale song from the Ode of Ouranos, and Aunt Cook scolded someone in the kitchen, but I hardly heard them.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • Adalana sang a nightingale song from the Ode of Ouranos, and Aunt Cook scolded someone in the kitchen, but I hardly heard them.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • (Ouranos is overthrown by Cronos, Cronos by Zeus).

    Presocratic Philosophy Curd, Patricia 2007

  • Kronos with his brothers and sisters made up the group of gods called the Titans, and they were the children of Ouranos and Gaea, the god of the sky and the goddess of the Earth, respectively.

    Banquets of the Black Widowers Asimov, Isaac, 1920-1992- 1984

  • Ouranos or Heaven: and there is the other the daughter of Zeus and Dione, this is the Aphrodite who presides over earthly unions; the higher was not born of a mother and has no part in marriages for in Heaven there is no marrying.

    The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

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