Gaea biography

Or Ge (Γῆ), the personification of the earth. She appears in the character of a divine being as early as the Homeric poems, for we read in the Iliad¹ that black sheep were sacrificed to her, and that she was invoked by persons taking oaths.² She is further called, in the Homeric poems, the mother of Erichthonius and Tithyus.³

According to the Theogony of Hesiod,⁴ she was the first being that sprang from Chaos, and gave birth to Uranus and Pontus.

By Uranus she then became the mother of a series of beings — Oceanus, Coeus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus, Theia, Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, Tethys, Cronus, the Cyclopes, Brontes, Steropes, Arges, Cottus, Briareus, and Gyges.

These children of Gaea and Uranus were hated by their father, and Gaea therefore concealed them in the bosom of the earth; but she made a large iron sickle, gave it to her sons, and requested them to take vengeance upon their father.

Cronus undertook the task, and mutilated Uranus. The drops of blo