Ouranos

Primordial Greek deity, god of the Sky; one of the Greek primordial deities

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Dominique Pagani returns to Ouranos several times between 2019 and 2025, always for the same scene: the sky-father who violates the earth, Gaia, and who ends up castrated. He stresses the burial of the children, whom Ouranos buries in the earth, and Gaia's response, which is to have one of her sons castrate him1 2. In the series "Bien-et Mé-faits de l'amnésie", he uses this figure to warn against any idealisation of the pre-Olympian world3. He describes it as a world without forgiveness, where violence calls for violence1. He also mentions Ouranos in other settings: a session devoted to Racine; his reading of Götterdämmerung, where he compares Ouranos, who impregnated the earth, to Wotan, father of the Valkyries4; and a reading of one of Rimbaud's Illuminations on "our ancient savagery", where he presents him as the Titan of the sky2.

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In Greek mythology, Uranus ( YOOR-ə-nəs, also yoo-RAY-nəs), sometimes written Ouranos (Ancient Greek: Οὐρανός, lit. 'sky',), is the personification of the sky and one of the Greek primordial deities. According to Hesiod, Uranus was the son and husband of Gaia (Earth), with whom he fathered the first generation of Titans. However, no cult addressed directly to Uranus survived into classical times, and Uranus does not appear among the usual themes of Greek painted pottery. Elemental Earth, Sky, and Styx might be joined, however, in solemn invocation in Homeric epic. The translation of his name in Latin is Caelus.

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