Gaia

After reading Margaret Edson’s play, Wit, I was able to understand the differences and similarities between kronos and kairos. Both of these Greek words are a big part of the play. Although both are Greek words and associate with time, they are very different in the way they are portrayed in this play. Kronos is chronological or sequential time and is measured by clocks while kairos is a propitious moment for decision or action and is related more to a feeling or a memory. Kronos refers to…

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.…

Hesiod’s Theogony, the primordial goddess Gaia is created through the spontaneous generation and is the anthropomorphized maternal figure of all existence. Despite being such an early god, and possessing the necessary metis to be an authoritative goddess, Gaia is fundamentally weak as displayed both by her unwillingness to participate in her crafty plans, and her inability to control the happenings of the world she creates. In the Theogony, it is clear that Gaia existed solely for the means of…

The Gaia hypothesis states that " that all organisms and their inorganic surroundings on Earth are closely integrated to form a single and self-regulating complex system, maintaining the conditions for life on the planet." This theory was created by NASA scientist named James Lovelock to explain how the earth maintains a state of equilibrium (Wilson, 2015). Since he introduced this hypothesis, James has received criticism from his peers who brand it as nothing more than a theory. Specifically,…

awareness of humans place on earth. In order to be a scientist, one has to cultivate between predictability (mechanistic philosophy) and the earth being alive (Gaia-hypothesis). Without predictability, one would not have any knowledge on anything; if the world was pure randomness, there would be no meaning to anything and nothing would matter. The Gaia-hypothesis enables us, humans, to care for the world. If one is able to perceive the world as a living thing, and not as a machine, then you can…

beginning, there were only humans that made up the sphere of land and light. A burst of touch from the hands of humans created what humans live in. Gaia, the mother of the land had left the humans she created to make up this land and make it an ancient memory of herself. Humans worked and put excessive amounts of time into the creating this land for Gaia. Aelius, the goddess of the sun was put up far, far away in the bright blue, vivid sky and the torch of light to the humans and their…

The Gaia Foundation argues that ‘’contamination of water and ecosystems, disruption of rocks land stability, environment and food production will continue to affect the local people for many of years if the reclamation is not properly done’’ (Gaia Foundation, 2014, p.36). Once the reclamation accomplished, the land is then handle over to the government and the necessary agencies. 2.3 Mining and Health Health is one of the fundamental aspects for the development and survival of all human races…

the nature of human beings, such as the Earth’s skin are forests that sweat to preserve the cooling of the Earth, while the oceans are rivers of blood that flow through the veins of Earth transporting nutrients and washing debris. He believed that Gaia, or Mother Earth as we all know, is a feedback loop that keeps a homeostatic balance for all life on Earth, even when species are endangered. Lovelock’s prospective of the way our Earth is run has been a debatable issue for many…

how that is why Gaia is a living organism. However, there have been debates about what it means to be “alive”. According to Grinspoon, some scientists believe that Gaia is “seeking something” and striving to sustain life, as opposed to simply stabilizing itself (70). In the documentary, the discussion on whether or not Earth is alive is left out. However, in the article “Gaia Hypothesis,” there is a range from weak Gaia to strong Gaia. Weak Gaia says it does not matter that Gaia does not…

In the beginning, there was only Chaos. Out of Chaos, Gaia was born. She was one of the many primordial deities. Gaia was the goddess of the earth and mother of many of the first-generation gods. She is also the great mother of all creation and life. Gaia is the mother and wife of Ouranos, the sky. The titans were the children of Ouranos and Gaia. One of these children, was the titan Kronos. He was husband of his sister Rheia, and father of Zeus and other deities. Like father like son, both…