Castration of Ouranos

I needed to show a pretty gruesome violent act in the castration, but I didn't want to go too graphic, so I attempted to be more suggestive with the act.  It's an interesting tightrope to walk. I want to stay true to the darker aspects of these ancient myths, but I must also be mindful of modern audiences and their reactions to nudity, violence, and other controversial aspects of these tales. So part of my journey has been to find that happy medium to not offend viewers with gratuitous imagery, but also honoring the accuracy of the root myth I am illustrating. My goal in the end is to make this work accessible to the majority, so these considerations must be taken into account.

Listen, O Muses, as Gaia, the Earth, and Ouranos, the Heavens, lie together and bear the twelve Titans, the three Cyclopes, and the three Hecatonchires with their hundred arms and fifty heads. Ouranos despises these last children and casts them into dark Tartarus, depriving them of light. Gaia, groaning in pain, fashions a sickle from adamant and implores her children to punish Ouranos. Only Kronos, the bold Titan, takes courage and, lying in wait, castrates his father with the magical weapon. The blood that falls to earth gives birth to the Erinyes, armored giants, and Meliads. Ouranos' severed parts fall into the sea, and from the surrounding foam emerges Aphrodite, the goddess of love, attended by the deities Eros and Desire.