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Caelus substituted for Uranus in Latin versions of the myth of Saturn ( Cronus ) castrating his heavenly father, from whose severed genitals, cast upon the sea, the goddess Venus ( Aphrodite ) was born.

In his work On the Nature of the Gods, Cicero presents a Stoic allegory of the myth in which the castration signifies " that the highest heavenly aether, that seed-fire which generates all things, did not require the equivalent of human genitals to proceed in its generative work.

" For Macrobius, the severing marks off Chaos from fixed and measured Time ( Saturn ) as determined by the revolving Heavens ( Caelum ).

The semina rerum (" seeds " of things that exist physically ) come from Caelum and are the elements which create the world.