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URANUS (Heaven)

URANUS (See also:
HEAVEN (0. Eng. hefen, heofon, heofone; this word appears in O.S. hevan; the High. Ger. word appears in Ger. Himmel, Dutch hemel; there does not seem to be any connexion between the two words, and the ultimate derivation of the word is unknown; the sugges
Heaven) , in See also:

Greek See also:

MYTHOLOGY

mythology, the See also:

HUSBAND

husband of Gaea (See also:

Earth), and See also:

FATHER

father of Cronus (See also:

Saturn) and other deities. As such he represents the generative See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power of the See also:

SKY (M. Eng. skie, cloud; O. Eng. skua, shade; connected with an Indo-European root sku, cover, whence " scum," Lat. obscurus, dark, &c.)

sky, which fructifies the earth with the warmth of the See also:

sun and the moisture of See also:

RAIN (O.E. regn; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Regen, Swed. and Dan. regn; it has been connected with Lat. rigare, to wet, Gr. 13pixeav)

rain. For the See also:

LEGEND (through the French from the med. Lat. legenda, things to be read, from legere, to read)

legend of his treatment by Cronus and its meaning, see SATURN. Uranus and other Greek gods anterior to See also:

ZEUS

Zeus were probably deities worshipped by earlier barbarous inhabitants of the See also:

LAND

land. The See also:

ROMAN

Roman Caelus (or Caelum) is simply a See also:

TRANSLATION

translation of the Greek Oupavos, not the name of a distinct See also:

NATIONAL

national divinity. There is no See also:

EVIDENCE (Lat. evidentia, evideri, to appear clearly)

evidence of the existence of a cult of Caelus, the occurrence of the name in dedicatory See also:

INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

inscriptions being due to See also:

ORIENTAL

Oriental influences, the See also:

WORSHIP (i.e. " worth-ship," O. Eng. weor8scipe)

worship of the sky being closely connected with that of See also:

MITHRAS

Mithras. Caelus is sometimes associated with Terra, represented in plastic See also:

art as an old, bearded See also:

man holding a robe stretched out over his See also:

head in the See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form of an See also:

arch. See Wissowa, See also:

Religion der Romer (1902), p. 304, and his See also:

ARTICLE (from Lat. articulus, a joint)

article in Pauly-Wissowa's Realencyclopadie, iii. pt. 1 (18997) ; also Steuding in See also:

ROSCHER, WILHELM GEORG FRIEDRICH (1817–1894)

Roscher's Lexikon der Mythologie and De Vies Onomasticon (suppt. to See also:

FORCELLINI, EGIDIO (1688-1768)

Forcellini's See also:

LEXICON

Lexicon). URA-TYUBE, or ORA-TEPE, a See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

RUSSIAN

Russian See also:

Turkestan, in the See also:

province of See also:

SAMARKAND

Samarkand, lying 37 M. S.W. of See also:

KHOJENT, or KHOJEND

Khojent, on the road from See also:

FERGHANA, or FERGANA

Ferghana to Jizak across the Zarafshan range.

Pop. (1900) 22,088, chiefly Uzbegs. It is surrounded by a See also:

wall and has a citadel. The inhabitants carry on See also:

trade in horses and See also:

CAMEL (from the Arabic Djemal or the Heb. Gamal)

camel-See also:

WOOL, WORSTED AND WOOLLEN MANUFACTURES

wool See also:

CLOTH

cloth, and manufacture cottons, boots and shoes, oil, and camel's-See also:

HAIR (a word common to Teutonic languages)

hair shawls. Ura-tyube is sup-posed to have been founded by See also:

Cyrus under the name of Cyropol, and was taken in 329 B.C. by See also:

Alexander the See also:

GREAT

Great of Macedon. Later it was the See also:

capital of an See also:

INDEPENDENT

independent See also:

state, though often held by either See also:

Bokhara or Kokand. The Russians took it in 1866.

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