uranus was the greek god of the sky.
uranus was the greek god of the sky.
who was the greek god of the sky?
uranus
uranus (; ancient greek , ouranos meaning "sky" or "heaven") was the primal greek god personifying the sky and one of the greek primordial deities. uranus is associated with the roman god 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. 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, 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.
uranus (mythology)
cologne had already started organizing carnaval by an association in 1823, followed in 1835 by düsseldorf and mainz in 1838. in limburg the carnaval organized by an association was as common as in the german rhineland. momus was probably the first carnaval association in the netherlands and was founded in 1839 in maastricht, followed by jocus in the city of venlo in 1842. momus name derives from the greek god momus. according to the "düsseldorfer narrenkalender" from 1841 "carnaval the great has three sons: momus, comus and jocus". momus is the greek god of mockery and criticism. when in venlo a sorority founded the carnaval association, they could thus choose between comus (greek god of festivity, anarchy and chaos) and jocus (roman god of wit and raillery). momus is not the oldest existing carnaval association because it had faded out before the second world war in 1939. after the war the carnaval in maastricht was organized by the tempeleers. the currently oldest carnaval association is jocus.
carnival in the netherlands