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URANUS (Heaven) , in Greek mythology, the husband of Gaea (Earth), and father of Cronus (Saturn) and other deities. As such he represents the generative power of the sky, which fructifies the earth with the warmth of the sun and the moisture of rain. For the legend of his treatment by Cronus and its meaning, see SATURN. Uranus and other Greek gods anterior to Zeus were probably deities worshipped by earlier barbarous inhabitants of the land. The Roman Caelus (or Caelum) is simply a translation
inscriptions being due to Oriental influences, the worship of the sky being closely connected with that of Mithras. Caelus is sometimes associated with Terra, represented in plastic art as an old, bearded man holding a robe stretched out over his head in the form of an arch.See Wissowa, Religion der Romer (1902), p. 304, and his article in Pauly-Wissowa's Realencyclopadie, iii. pt. 1 (18997) ; also Steuding in Roscher's Lexikon der Mythologie and De Vies Onomasticon (suppt. to Forcellini's Lexicon). URA-TYUBE, or ORA-TEPE, a town of Russian Turkestan, in the province of Samarkand, lying 37 M. S.W. of Khojent, on the road from Ferghana to Jizak across the Zarafshan range. Pop. (1900) 22,088, chiefly Uzbegs. It is surrounded by a wall
hair shawls. Ura-tyube is sup-posed to have been founded by Cyrus under the name of Cyropol, and was taken in 329 B.C. by Alexander the Great
capital of an independent state, though often held by either Bokhara
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