Caelus’s Family Tree

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Family

• Terra(spouse),Ops(child),Saturn(child)— Marriage

  Caelus and Terra, Sky and Earth joined in the first marriage, bore the elder gods — Saturn, Ops, Coeus, Phoebe, Hyperion, Theia, and their kin — until Saturn castrated his father and seized dominion over the cosmos.

Enemy of

• Saturn

  Saturn overthrew his father Caelus and castrated him, seizing control of the cosmos from the primordial sky god. This act of violence echoed through divine generations when Jupiter later overthrew Saturn.

Equivalent to

• Uranus(Greek)

  The Romans identified Uranus with Caelus, their primordial sky god. Both traditions placed him as the first sky father, castrated and overthrown by his children in the succession of divine generations.