Gaia. In Greek mythology, Gaia, also spelled Gaea, is the personification of the Earth and one of the Greek primordial deities.
Gaia is the ancestral mother of all life: the primal Mother Earth goddess. She is the immediate parent of Uranus, from whose sexual union she bore the Titans and the Giants, and of Pontus, from whose union she bore the primordial sea gods.
Her equivalent in the Roman pantheon was Terra. Hesiod's Theogony tells how, after Chaos, wide-bosomed Gaia arose to be the everlasting seat of the immortals who possess Olympus above.
And after Gaia came dim Tartarus in the depth of the wide-pathed Earth, and next Eros the god of love. Hesiod goes on to say that Gaia brought forth her equal Uranus to cover her on every side.
Gaia also bore the Ourea, and Pontus, without sweet union of love. Afterwards with Uranus she gave birth to the Titans, as Hesiod tells it: She lay with Heaven and bore deep-swirling Oceanus, Coeus and Crius and Hyperion and Iapetus, Theia and Rhea, Themis and Mnemosyne and gold-crowned Phoebe and lovely Tethys. After them was born Cronos the wily, youngest and most terrible of her children, and he hated his lusty sire. According to Hesiod, Gaia conceived further offspring with Uranus, first the giant one-eyed Cyclopes: Brontes, Steropes, and Arges; then the Hecatonchires: Cottus, Briareos, and Gyges, each with a hundred arms and fifty heads. As each
Gaia is the ancestral mother of all life: the primal Mother Earth goddess. She is the immediate parent of Uranus, from whose sexual union she bore the Titans and the Giants, and of Pontus, from whose union she bore the primordial sea gods.
Her equivalent in the Roman pantheon was Terra. Hesiod's Theogony tells how, after Chaos, wide-bosomed Gaia arose to be the everlasting seat of the immortals who possess Olympus above.
And after Gaia came dim Tartarus in the depth of the wide-pathed Earth, and next Eros the god of love. Hesiod goes on to say that Gaia brought forth her equal Uranus to cover her on every side.
Gaia also bore the Ourea, and Pontus, without sweet union of love. Afterwards with Uranus she gave birth to the Titans, as Hesiod tells it: She lay with Heaven and bore deep-swirling Oceanus, Coeus and Crius and Hyperion and Iapetus, Theia and Rhea, Themis and Mnemosyne and gold-crowned Phoebe and lovely Tethys. After them was born Cronos the wily, youngest and most terrible of her children, and he hated his lusty sire. According to Hesiod, Gaia conceived further offspring with Uranus, first the giant one-eyed Cyclopes: Brontes, Steropes, and Arges; then the Hecatonchires: Cottus, Briareos, and Gyges, each with a hundred arms and fifty heads. As each
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