Uran (mitologija)
Uran | |
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Grupe | Grčki primordijalni bogovi |
Suprug(a) | Geja |
Mitologija | Grčka mitologija |
Uran (grč.
Etimologija
[uredi | uredi izvor]Većina lingvista prati etimologiju imena
Kastriranje Urana
[uredi | uredi izvor]Hesiod u svojoj Teogoniji govori da je Uran dolazio svake noći da bi spavao s Gejom, ali je mrzio djecu koju mu je rodila: Titane, Centimane i Kiklope.[10] On ih je zatvorio u Tartar što je Geji uzrokovalo veliku bol. Oblikovala je kremeni srp i zatražila svoje sinove da kastriraju njenog muža, a na to je pristao Kron, najmlađi Titan.[11] Dok je Uran sišao nad Geju da bi spavao s njom, Kron je iz zasjede skočio na njega i kastrirao ga, bacivši njegove testise u more. Od prolivene krvi rođeni su Giganti, Erinije, Melije (nimfe stabla jasena) te Telhine (stanovnike ostrva Roda). Od genitalija bačenih u more rođena je Afrodita.[12] Kron je potom zatvorio Centimane i Kiklope u Tartar. Uran i Geja tada su prorekli da će i samog Krona svrgnuti njegov sin, stoga je on to pokušao izbjeći proždiravši svoju djecu. Međutim, uz pomoć svoje majke Reje, Zeus je preživio i svrgnuo Krona. Urana je poslije držao Titan Atlant, za kaznu, iako neki tvrde da on zapravo drži Geju, Zemlju.
Potomstvo
[uredi | uredi izvor]Uran ima djecu sa Gejom i Talasom. Uranovi potomci:
- Titani - oni su ga svrgnuli.
- Kiklopi - jednooki divovi.
- Centimani - divovi sa sto ruku i pedeset glava, zbog izgleda ih je Uran zatvorio.
- Erinije - božice osvete.
- Giganti - divovi sa zmijskim repovima.
- Melije - nimfe jasena.
- Afrodita - božica ljubavi i ljepote, kćerka Urana sa Talasom, ili je nastala od njegovih genitalija.
Reference
[uredi | uredi izvor]- ^ "We did not regard them as being in any way worthy of worship," Karl Kerenyi, speaking for the ancient Greeks, said of the Titans (Kerenyi, str. 20); "with the single exception, perhaps, of Cronos; and with the exception, also, of Helios."
- ^ As at Homer, Iliad 15.36 ff., Odyssey 5.184 ff.
- ^ Grimal, s.v. "Caelus" str. 38.
- ^ Varro, De lingua Latina 5.58.
- ^ Marion Lawrence, "The Velletri Sarcophagus", American Journal of Archaeology 69.3 (1965), str. 220.
- ^ Floro, Epitome 1.40 (3.5.30): "The Jews tried to defend Jerusalem; but he [Pompeius Magnus] entered this city also and saw that grand Holy of Holies of an impious people exposed, Caelum under a golden vine" (Hierosolymam defendere temptavere Iudaei; verum haec quoque et intravit et vidit illud grande inpiae gentis arcanum patens, sub aurea vite Caelum). Finbarr Barry Flood, The Great Mosque of Damascus: Studies on the Makings of an Umayyad Visual Culture (Brill, 2001), pp. 81 and 83 (note 118). El Oxford Latin Dictionary (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982, 1985 reprinting), str. 252, entry on caelum, cita a Juvenal, Petronio, and Floro como ejemplos de Caelus o Caelum "with reference to Jehovah; also, to some symbolization of Jehovah."
- ^ West 2007, p. 137. Originally reconstructed in: Johann Baptist Hofmann, Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Griechischen (Munich: R. Oldenbourg, 1950).
- ^ Robert S. P. Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek, vol. 2 (Leiden: Brill, 2009), 1128–1129.
- ^ West 2007, str. 137.
- ^ Hesiod, Theogony 154–155. Exactly which of these eighteen children Hesiod meant that Uranus hated is not entirely clear, all eighteen, or perhaps just the Cyclopes and the Hundred-Handers. Hard,
str. 67; West 1988, str. 7, and Caldwell, str. 37 on lines 154–160, make it all eighteen; while Gantz, str. 10, says "likely all eighteen"; and Most, str. 15 n. 8, says "apparently only the ... Cyclopes and Hundred-Handers are meant" and not the twelve Titans. See also West 1966, str. 206 on lines 139–53, str. 213 line 154
γ ὰρ . Why Uranus hated his children is also not clear. Gantz, str. 10 says: "The reason for [Uranus'] hatred may be [his children's] horrible appearance, though Hesiod does not quite say this"; while Hard, str. 67 says: "Although Hesiod is vague about the cause of his hatred, it would seem that he took a dislike to them because they were terrible to behold". However, West 1966, str. 213 line 155, says that Uranus hated his children because of their "fearsome nature". - ^ Hesiod, Theogony 159–172.
- ^ Hesiod, Theogony 183–199.