Gaia
Γαῖα
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DEITY · Earth
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Rare
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Earth herself — the first solid being in Hesiod, mother of the Titans and mother of nearly every primordial lineage.[S1] [S5] [S6]
The Divine Atlas
Earth · greek pantheon
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Gaia (Earth) is, in Hesiod's Theogony, the second named being after Chaos: from Chaos came Gaia, the broad breast that is the foundation of all [S1]. She is a mother to an extraordinary degree — she gives birth to Uranus (Sky), to the sea (Pontus), and to the mountains, and she is the mother of the Titans (with Uranus) [S1]. In myth she is also the avenger: she impregnates herself and bears the giant Typhon (or, in the Theogony, the monstrous Typhaon) in revenge for Uranus's mutilation by Cronus, and it is her counsel that sets Cronus against Uranus [S1][S5]. Cultically Gaia/Ge was venerated as the earth-mother at many sites; 'Gaia' is often the generic 'earth' while 'Ge' the deity [S6].
cornthe land itself