Uranus (mythology) three one-hundred-handed giants the Hekatonkheires, and the one-eyed giants the Cyclopes. Uranus imprisoned Gaia's youngest children in Tartarus, deep within Earth, where they caused pain to Gaia. She shaped a great flint-bladed sickle and asked her sons to castrate Uranus. Only Cronus, youngest and most ambitious of the Titans, was willing: he ambushed his father and castrated him, casting the severed testicles into the sea. For this fearful deed, Uranus called his sons Titanes Theoi, or "Straining Gods." From the blood that spilled from Uranus onto the Earth came forth the Giants, the Erinyes (the avenging Furies), the Meliae (the
Gaea (crater) South pole of Amalthea, far south from the two bright areas, Lyctos Facula and Ida Facula, which are positioned on the slopes of a prominent mountain elongated along meridian. Gaea (crater) Gaea is an impact crater on Amalthea, one of the small moons of Jupiter. The crater is 75 km wide and at least 10–20 km deep. Its center coordinates are 50°S, 95°W. Gaea is one of two named craters on Amalthea, the other being Pan. It is named after the Greek goddess Gaia. Third of Gaea's interior is covered by a bright spot – the largest on Amalthea. Its