Hey, it's Nick.
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Lang made a sculpture of Uranus's castrated penis.
Apparently, Kronos cut off his father's penis and threw it in the ocean, in the Peloponnesian Sea.
He cut off his father's penis because his mother gave birth to a hundred handed titan, like a centipede human.
And Uranus was so grossed out by the mutant with a hundred hands that he kept that being that person, his child, inside a cave, inside of a castle, even.
Some people say he pushed it back up into his wife Gaia's vagina.
At which point she told her son, Cronos, why don't you go cut his dick off?
Right?
And he did.
He sliced off his father's penis, and he threw it in the sea.
And from the foam and blood of the leaking, castrated penis of Uranus came aphrodite, the goddess of beauty.
It's a strange myth.
I didn't know really much about it.
I had gone for the centipede thing because I thought, well, maybe I'll make a person with a hundred hands someday.
But every time someone chooses someone else to make a baby with, they're making a freak for their own pleasure.
It doesn't matter if it's random recombination.