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#Ouranos

The primordial Sky; father of the Titans, castrated by Kronos.

A nude Aphrodite risen waist-deep from a grey-blue sea, wringing the water from the long rope of her hair as she looks aside, a scallop shell adrift on the swell beside her.
Greek

Aphrodite, Goddess of Love

Born from sea-foam and the severed flesh of Heaven, the goddess whose power bent gods and beasts alike, and whom only three could resist.

5 minHesiod
A luminous creator-figure sits enthroned at the centre of the newborn cosmos, arms outspread to draw the concentric spheres of the world out of formless Chaos, while personified winds and elements billow in the four corners — an engraved frontispiece to Ovid's Metamorphoses Book I
Greek

The Birth of the Cosmos

Before there was a world there was only a gap, and out of that yawning dark the first gods came to be.

8 minHesiod