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Uranus ( or ; Ancient Greek , ''Ouranos'' meaning "sky" or "heaven") was the primal Greek god personifying the sky. His equivalent in Roman mythology was Caelus. In Ancient Greek literature, Uranus or Father Sky was the son and husband of Gaia, Mother Earth. According to Hesiod's ''Theogony'', Uranus was conceived by Gaia alone, but other sources cite Aether as his father.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=AETHER: Greek protogenos god of upper air & light ; mythology : AETHER )〕 Uranus and Gaia were the parents of the first generation of Titans, and the ancestors of most of the Greek gods, but no cult addressed directly to Uranus survived into Classical times,〔"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, ''The Gods of the Greeks'', 1951:20); "with the single exception, perhaps, of Cronos; and with the exception, also, of Helios."〕 and Uranus does not appear among the usual themes of Greek painted pottery. Elemental Earth, Sky and Styx might be joined, however, in a solemn invocation in Homeric epic.〔As at ''Iliad'' xv.36f and ''Odyssey'' v.184f.〕 ==Etymology== The most probable etymology traces the name to a Proto-Greek form *''worsanós'' (Ϝορσανός)〔Originally reconstructed in: Johann Baptist Hofmann, ''Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Griechischen'' (Munich: R. Oldenbourg, 1950).〕 enlarged from *''ṷorsó-'' (also found in Greek ''ouréō'' ‘to urinate’, Sanskrit ''varṣá'' ‘rain’, Hittite ''ṷarša-'' ‘fog, mist’).〔Robert S. P. Beekes, ''Etymological Dictionary of Greek'' v.2 (Brill: Leiden, 2009), 1128-9.〕 The basic Indo-European root is '' *ṷérs-'' ‘to rain, moisten’ (also found in Greek ''eérsē'' ‘dew’, Sanskrit ''várṣati'' ‘to rain’, Avestan aiβi.''varəšta'' ‘it rained on’), making Ouranos the ‘rainmaker’.〔 A less likely etymology is a derivative with meaning ‘the one standing on high’ from PIE *''ṷérso-'' (cf. Sanskrit ''várṣman'' ‘height, top’, Lithuanian ''viršùs'' ‘upper, highest seat’, Russian ''verx'' ‘height, top’). Georges Dumézil’s equation〔George Dumézil, “Ouranos-Varuna”, in: ''Études de mythologie comparée indo-européenne''. Paris: G.-P. Maisonneuve, 1934.〕 of Ouranos’ name with that of the Vedic deity ''Váruṇa'' (Mitanni ''Aruna''), god of the sky and waters, is etymologically untenable.〔Manfred Mayrhofer, ''Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen'', vol. 2, s.v. “Váruṇa” (Heidelberg, 1996), 515-6.〕〔Edgar C. Polomé, “Binder-god”, in: ''Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture'' (London / Chicago: Fitzroy-Dearborn, 1997), 65.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Uranus (mythology)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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