Gaia goddess

Water of Whimsy | Gaia is a Goddess in Greek mythology who is the personification of Earth. She is wife and mother of Uranus, with whom she bore the Titans… | Instagram

Gaea (also spelled as Gaia or Ge) is the Greek primordial goddess of the Earth. She is the first being to have sprung forth from the void of Chaos. Gaea is the main antagonist of The Heroes of Olympus series, being directly responsible for some of the major events in the series, such as the Second Giant War. Her current husband is the protogenos Tartarus, whom she conceived the Gigantes, and her former husband is Ouranos, whom she had the Titans. Her Roman counterpart is Terra or Tellus…

The mother of creation who created the original gods and the universe, the grandmother god of all gods and humans.

Today's mythology word is geology, which comes from the name of the Greek goddess Gaia, which is also the Greek word for the earth herself. To learn more about Gaia, see Wikipedia. There are many more words formed from this same Greek root: geography, geode, geodesic, geometry, geopolitcal, etc. The name "George" also contains the same root: "George" is from the Greek word georgos, "farmer," someone who works the earth (geo-ergos). This is a statue of Gaia in Lysá nad Labem (Czech Republic).

A Prayer the Gaia the Goddess

Greek Mythology Link - a collection of myths retold by Carlos Parada, author of Genealogical Guide to Greek Mythology.

This is a statue of Rhea Silvia and her two sons Romulus and Remus. The twin demigods are essential to the Rome foundation myth, which even as time continued, bring the Roman citizens together as they embrace their origins.