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
Melita (personification) design symbolized the protection and good relations between the two countries. Edward Caruana Dingli's Melita design was reused for the fifth series Maltese banknotes issued by the Central Bank of Malta. This series was issued between 1989 and 2000 and remained in use until 2008 when Malta adopted the Euro. The watermark on these and previous banknotes also shows the head of the allegorical figure Melita. Melita (personification) Melita is the personification of Malta or the Maltese people. The name originated from the Roman town of Melite (Μελίτη, "Melite" in Ancient Greek), which was the ancient capital of Malta which