Drawing by Rei Inamoto depicting the Roman god Uranus.
Rei Inamoto
Uranus
Uranus stands for the starry sky in the evening. In the creation
myth of the Greeks, Uranus suddenly came out of the Earth
(shown as the goddess Gaea).
Gaea herself suddenly came
into being out of Chaos, which came before all things.
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