COELUS (Heaven), in Pagan mythology, the son of Aether and Dies or Air and Day. According to
Hesiod, he married Terra or the Earth: on whom he beget Aurora or the Mountains, the Ocean, &c. But having at length imprisoned the Cyclops, who were also his children, his wife, being offended, incited her son Saturn to revenge the injury done to his brothers; and, by her assistance, he bound and castrated Cœlus, when the blood that flowed from the wound produced the three furies, the giants, and the wood-nymphs; and the genital parts being thrown into the sea, impregnated the waters, and formed the goddess Venus. This deity was called by the Greeks Uranus.