Ouranos

The account

Gaia made Ouranos by herself, equal to her own size, so that the earth would have a covering. He became her husband and the father of the Titans, the Kyklopes and the Hundred-Handers, and he hated all of them. As each child was born he pushed it back into the earth and would not let it into the light, and he took pleasure in doing it. That is the whole of his character in Hesiod: a sky that will not permit anything under it to exist separately. When Kronos ambushed and unmanned him, the sky pulled back from the earth and stayed back, and the gap between them is the world. His blood, falling on Gaia, produced the Erinyes, the Giants and the ash-tree nymphs; the severed parts, carried a long time on the sea, produced Aphrodite. He gives one prophecy on his way out — that Kronos will be brought down by his own son in the same way — and it is correct. He has almost no cult. He is a function in the story rather than a god anyone prayed to.