Gaia Greek Goddess

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Gaia is the Greek Goddess and Gaea is the Roman Goddess one. They are both Goddess of Earth. “Gaia was a generous mother, as a mother should be. She opened her veins so water could rush through rivers and creeks, and pool together in a large low lakes and small hidden ponds,” (Napoli, Balit, 2011, p. 14). Gaea did what Gaia but the difference is Gaea was scared by people. “Gaea’s husband was Ouranos, they both look like monsters,” (Hamilton, Savage, 1942, p. 66). Gaia’s husband was Uranus.
“Gaia wanted her youngest son Cronus to kill his father Uranus. He did, but he was warned that one of sons will kill him. He started swallowing all of his sons so that he would not get killed. Then his wife Rhea gave him a stone wrapped up in swaddling clothes
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“The festivals involved offering and prayers, but might include athletic games, music, poetry recitals, or plays-these were seen as gifts to the gods. The Olympic Games were the most important games and part of the festival,” (Hunt, 2013, p. 18).
Roman’s valued festivals. “The calendar itself has two main functions. First, it divides the days of the month into fasti (from fas, right)and nefasti, that is days on which business might transacted and those on which it might not. Secondly, it gives the dates of no less than forty-five festivals,” (Derowne, 1984, p. 37)
Gaea had a fight vs Zeus. “Gaea wanted one of her other sons to beat Zeus, so she had him turn into a monster with a bunch of snake heads on him, and his power was biting with his fangs with venom, and Zeus power was lightning and stone throwing, They started the fight and the son started to spit venom at him it started to burn Zeus, then Zeus got so mad he started throwing stones at him, then later on he beat the son got beat,”(Hamilton, 1942, p. 63)
Gaia by definition. “A creator force that came out of the dark nothingness to create the world; also called Mother Earth,”(Hunt, 2014, p. 42) Gaea by definition. “A female and is made the Earth and also ugly. Is what is the way they look at her,”(Hunt 2014,p 55, 56, 58, and

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