She created a grey flint (or adamantine) sickle. As each of the Cyclopes and Hecatonchires were born, Uranus hid them in a secret place within Gaia, causing her great pain. Other offspring and the castration of Uranus Īccording to Hesiod, Gaia conceived further offspring with her son, Uranus, first the giant one-eyed Cyclopes: Brontes ("Thunder"), Steropes ("Lightning"), and Arges ("Bright") then the Hecatonchires: Cottus, Briareos, and Gyges, each with a hundred arms and fifty heads. After them was born Cronos ( Cronus) the wily, youngest, and most terrible of her children, and he hated his lusty sire. 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. Īfterward, with Uranus, her son, she gave birth to the Titans, as Hesiod tells it: Gaia also bore the Ourea (Mountains), and Pontus (Sea), "without sweet union of love" (i.e., with no father). Hesiod goes on to say that Gaia brought forth her equal Uranus (Heaven, Sky) to "cover her on every side". And after Gaia came "dim Tartarus in the depth of the wide-pathed Earth", and next Eros the god of love. Hesiod's Theogony tells how, after Chaos, "wide-bosomed" Gaia (Earth) arose to be the everlasting seat of the immortals who possess Olympus above. Hesiod Birth of Gaia, Uranus, and the Titans Gaia (bottom-right) rises out of the ground, detail of the Gigantomachy frieze, Pergamon Altar, Pergamon museum, Berlin. In Mycenean Greek Ma-ka (transliterated as Ma-ga, "Mother Gaia") also contains the root ga. The Greek name Γαῖα ( Gaia Ancient Greek: or ) is a mostly epic, collateral form of Attic Γῆ ( Gē ), and Doric Γᾶ ( Ga ), perhaps identical to Δᾶ ( Da ), both meaning " Earth". Her equivalent in the Roman pantheon was Terra. She is the mother of Uranus (the 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 (the sea), from whose union she bore the primordial sea gods. Gaia is the ancestral mother-sometimes parthenogenic-of all life. In Greek mythology, Gaia ( / ˈ ɡ eɪ ə, ˈ ɡ aɪ ə/ Ancient Greek: Γαῖα, romanized: Gaîa, a poetical form of Γῆ ( Gê), meaning 'land' or 'earth'), also spelled Gaea / ˈ dʒ iː ə/, is the personification of the Earth and one of the Greek primordial deities.
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