The sky father is a recurring theme in mythology. The sky father is the complement of the earth mother and appears in some creation myths, many of which are European or ancient Near Eastern. Other cultures have quite different myths; Egyptian mythology features a sky mother and an earthly dying and reviving god of vegetation. Shinto gives precedence to a sun goddess. A sky father also relates to a solar deity, a god identified with the sun.
Uranus means sky. It was also the name of an ancient Greek god, the god of the sky, naturally.
The Roman god of the sky is Jupiter, and the Greek god of the sky is Zeus.
Zeus was the greek god of the sky.
Zeus is the ancient greek god of the sky, Atlas is the Titan who "carries the sky" or carries the weight of the world.
Zeus (or Jupitier in Rome) is the Greek god of lighting, the sky and king of the heavens.
Uranus was the Roman god of the sky. (Rome, unlike Greece, had a chief god and a god of the sky)(edit) The Roman god of the sky is Jupiter... Uranus is named after the Greek god of the sky.Source= High school history andhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UranusIt is named after the ancient Greek deity of the sky Uranus (Greek Mythology).Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranus
Zeus the greek god of the sky, all gods, and lighting
The god of the sky in Greek mythology was Zeus, also known as the king of the gods and the god of lightning and thunder.
The planet Uranus was named for the primordial god who personified the sky.
In ancient Greek mythology it appears that Dyaus was the God of Sky.
There was no goddess of the sky. Only Zeus, the god of the sky.
Zeus was the greek god of the sky, lightning, thunder and just about anything to do with the sky. He was also the head of the greek gods and goddesses