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Uranus imprisoned Gaia's youngest children in Tartarus, deep within Earth where they caused pain to Gaia. The graphic nature of Uranus is not something that I will post here. Uranus was scarcely regarded as anthropomorphic. He was simply the sky, which was conceived by the ancients as an overarching dome or roof of bronze, held in place (or turned on an axis) by the Titan Atlas.