Gaia

species “fulfills the role of a vital, albeit conscious, organ in the geophysiology of the planet” (Lautensach). It can be considered that Gaia and the human species have a dependent relationship. Since the human species function as an organ of Gaia’s, “humanity can claim that many of its efforts to ensure its continued existence will also have a benefit for Gaia” (Lautensach). However, Gaia’s health is also determined by the human species. For instance, environmental phenomenon like the…

The easiest analysis of this episode of the Theogony casts Gaia and Ouranos respectively into the maternal and paternal roles. Gaia, as the mother, is “strained and stretched” (Hesiod, Theogony, 161) by the children that she bears, that Ouranos hides within her. Hesiod draws the parallel between Gaia’s suffering and pregnancy, and codifies the pain that women endure because of it. He writes the suffering and violation of…

This idea gets Darwinians upset and the idea turned around. Richard Dawkins, a main critic of Gaia, expresses that natural selection thrives on the basis of self-centeredness for organisms in order to survive and flourish. Dawkins argument is weak and at the same time actually helps support Gaia. Gaia is based on final causation, and natural selection is all about survival of the fittest. These two are correlated because at the end of the system…

similar to Gaia’s power of the Earth, and Antheia’s powers of plants and flowers. Gaia, the goddess of all life on the planet Earth. She was the first goddess that was created, and not birthed, so she was given the title “Mother Earth”. Just like Demeter, Gaia wanted balance and peace on the planet Earth. Both Demeter and Gaia were able to control parts of the planet Earth with their emotions and feelings. For example, Gaia could completely ruin and tear apart parts of the Earth if she became…

However in some myths Eros is also considered as a son of Aphrodite not Chaos. From love, together Nyx and Erebus gave birth to Aether primordial god of the upper atmosphere, Hemera primordial goddess of the day. Once there was light and day, formed Gaia primordial goddess of the earth. Then light and day gave birth to Thalassa primordial goddess of the sea. Beneath the earth arises the pit, Tartarus primordial of punishment and other deities such as…

She still remains the stoic frosty beauty she was on Myspace but with a brand new background story. Her story actually begins long before she was born many eons ago. Back when Gaia was young, and Certra existed life seemed peaceful till the day Jenova appeared. Chaos broke across the planet. The Certra began dying, and little hope was left till one stumbled across a stranger. Giving her newborn child whom would be the great grandfather…

kingly office amongst the deathless gods. For he learned from Gaia (Gaea, Earth) and starry Ouranos (Sky) that he was destined to be overcome by his own son, strong though he was, through the contriving of great Zeus.Therefore he kept no blind outlook, but watched and swallowed down his children : and unceasing grief seized Rhea. But when she was about to bear Zeus, the father of gods and men, then she besought her own dear parents, Gaia (Earth) and starry Ouranos (Sky), to devise some plan with…

me of the mightiest Titans, Cronus. Cronus is a son of Uranus and Gaia. Cronus envied the power of his father, the ruler of the universe. Gaia hated Uranus for hiding her youngest children from her. She had created a great stone sickle that had the ability to kill Uranus. Gaia had assembled her sons to persuade them to castrate Uranus. Only Cronus was willing to the deed. Cronus was set up to ambush Uranus as he came to meet with Gaia.…

They embody the traditional ideal of women and motherhood as creators of life and support to their children and husbands. In Greek mythology, Gaia can be seen as the first mother, the great mother of all creation and the heavenly gods were all born through her. In the creation of earth, Hesiod evokes images of the female form saying, “ Then arose Gaia, broad-bosomed earth, which serves as the ever-immovable base all the immortals who dwell on the peaks of snowy Olympus (Frazer, 1983). Gaia’s…

nothingness, and continues to introduce several gods and goddesses who progressed from Chaos. It begins by introducing Gaia who appeared out of the void of chaos. Gaia is one of the primordial deities, referred to as the earth or “the foundation of all” (“Gaia”). The myth continues to introduce Tartaros, “the depth in the Earth where condemned dead souls go to their punishment” (“Gaia”). Tartarus was used by the Greeks to describe the deepest region of the world, even lower than the underworld…