The Earth herself. She bore the sky, the mountains and the sea, and was mother of the Titans, the Cyclopes and the Hundred-Handers.
Roman name: Terra
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The story
The Earth, one of the first beings. She gave birth to Uranus the Sky and then, with him, to the Titans, the Cyclopes and the Hundred-Handers. When Uranus imprisoned their children inside her, she made a great sickle and persuaded Cronus to use it.
How it ends
She outlasted every generation of gods. Later she raised the Giants and the monster Typhon against Zeus, but both were defeated.
Still with us today
The “Gaia hypothesis” of the scientist James Lovelock, which treats the Earth as one self-regulating system, is named after her.
Family
- Partners: Uranus
- Children: Uranus, Pontus, Cronus, Rhea, Oceanus, Tethys, Hyperion, Theia, Coeus, Phoebe, Mnemosyne, Themis, Iapetus, The Furies, Nereus, Typhon, The Cyclopes
Appears in
Read about them in the Library
- Theogony and Works and Days 2: The first gods
- Theogony and Works and Days 5: The war of the Titans and Typhon
- Library of Apollodorus 1: The first gods and the Titans
Ancient sources
- Hesiod, Theogony
