Gaia | |
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Personification of the Earth | |
Member of Primordial Gods | |
![]() Gaia pleads with Athena to spare her son, Gigantomachy frieze, Pergamon Altar, Pergamon museum, Berlin | |
Other names | Ge Gaea |
Greek | Γαῖα, Γῆ |
Parents | None (Hesiod)[1] |
Consort | Uranus, Pontus, Tartarus |
Offspring | Uranus, Pontus, the Ourea, the Hecatonchires, the Cyclopes, the Titans, the Gigantes, Nereus, Thaumus, Phorcys, Ceto, Eurybia, Tritopatores, Typhon |
Equivalents | |
Roman equivalent | Terra |
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In Greek mythology, Gaia (/ˈɡeɪə, ˈɡaɪə/;[2] Ancient Greek: Γαῖα, romanized: Gaîa, a poetic form of Γῆ (Gê), meaning 'land' or 'earth'),[3] also spelled Gaea (/ˈdʒiːə/),[2] is the personification of Earth.[4] Gaia is the ancestral mother—sometimes parthenogenic—of all life. She is the mother of Uranus (Sky), from whose sexual union she bore the Titans (themselves parents of many of the Olympian gods), the Cyclopes, and the Giants, as well as of Pontus (Sea), from whose union she bore the primordial sea gods. Her equivalent in the Roman pantheon was Terra.[5]
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