Caelus
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Caelus, also known as Coelus, was the Roman god of the sky, personified from the Latin word for "sky", caelum. Caelus was later equated with the Greek god of the heavens, Uranus, who was vastly more important to the Greeks than Caelus was to the Romans.
In the Roman adaptation of Greek mythology, Caelus was, by marriage to Tellus (Greek: Gaia), the father of Saturn (Greek: Cronus), Ops (Greek: Rhea), Oceanus, and the other Titans, as well as the Gigantes. Alone, Caelus was the father of Venus (Greek: Aphrodite).
[edit] References
- Grimal, Pierre (1986). The Dictionary of Classical Mythology (pp. 83–84). Oxford: Basil Blackwell. ISBN 0-631-13209-0.
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