heaven, in Pagan mythology, the son of Æther and Dies, or Air and Day. According to Hesiod, he married Terra, or the Earth; on whom he begat Ourea, 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 affluence, he bound and castrated Cætus, 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.