Uranus (mythology) castrated Uranus, from Uranus' blood, which splattered onto the earth, came the Erinyes (Furies), the Giants, and the Meliae. Also, according to the "Theogony", Cronus threw the severed genitals into the sea, around which "a white foam spread" and "grew" into the goddess Aphrodite, although according to Homer, Aphrodite was the daughter of Zeus and Dione. In the Olympian creation myth, as Hesiod tells it in the "Theogony", Uranus came every night to cover the earth and mate with Gaia, but he hated the children she bore him. Hesiod named their first six sons and six daughters the Titans, the
Gaea (Bolcom) origin to the loss of use in Fleisher's right hand in 1965, according to Fleisher's Kennedy Center biography. Gaea (Bolcom) "Gaea", for Two Pianos Left Hand and Orchestra, also simply called "Concerto for Two Pianos Left Hand", is a concert piece by the American composer William Bolcom, written for Leon Fleisher and Gary Graffman. The composition, which received its first performance in Baltimore in April 1996, is constructed in such a way that it can be performed in one of three ways, with either piano part alone with reduced orchestra, or with both piano parts and the two reduced orchestras