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I have looked it up and it can be both!.!.!. but I believe that Giaa is different than Gaia!.!.!. Nightwish lyrics say 'Giaa'!.!.!. not completely sure!.!.!. I used the name in a poem I recently posted!.!.!. the first one to answer this question posted from some sight instead of giving of his own knowledge!.!.!. the others were more real!.!.!.

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It's "Gaia", so you need to reorganize the lines of your last stanza!. It is "okay"!.!.!.some of the lines in stanza one are pretty good!.!.!.but I'd work on that last stanza a little!.

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Even if this was not an acrostic it would be very good!.!.!. I agree with Siren, however, what would it hurt to write a new one using the other spelling!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

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It's

GYIEEAAAARRRHHHGGGH!Www@QuestionHome@Com

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It is Gaia!.

Gaia (pronounced /?ge??/ or /?ga??/) ("land" or "earth", from the Ancient Greek Γα?α; also Gaea or Ge (Modern Greek Γ?) is the primal Greek goddess personifying the Earth!.

Gaia is a primordial and chthonic deity in the Ancient Greek pantheon and considered a Mother Goddess or Great Goddess!.

Her equivalent in the Roman pantheon was Terra!.

Contents [hide]
1 In Greek mythology
2 Family tree
3 Interpretations
4 In other cultures
5 In Neopaganism
6 In modern ecological theory
7 See also
8 References
9 External links



[edit] In Greek mythology
Hesiod's Theogony (116ff) tells how, after Chaos, arose broad-breasted Gaia the everlasting foundation of the gods of Olympus!. She brought forth Uranus, the starry sky, her equal, to cover her, the hills, and the fruitless deep of the Sea, Pontus, "without sweet union of love," out of her own self through parthenogenesis!. But afterwards, as Hesiod tells it, she lay with her son, Uranus, and bore the World-Ocean Oceanus, Coeus and Crius and the Titans Hyperion and Iapetus, Theia and Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, and Phoebe of the golden crown, and lovely Tethys!. "After them was born Cronus the wily, youngest and most terrible of her children, and he hated his lusty sire!."

Hesiod mentions Gaia's further offspring conceived with Uranus: first the giant one-eyed Cyclopes: Brontes ("thunderer"), Steropes ("lightning") and the "bright" Arges: "Strength and might and craft were in their works!." Then he adds the three terrible hundred-handed sons of Earth and Heaven, the Hecatonchires: Cottus, Briareos and Gyges, each with fifty heads!.

Greek deities
series
Titans and Olympians
Aquatic deities
Personified concepts
Other deities

Primordial deities
Chaos
Aether
Gaia
Uranus
Eros
Erebus
Nyx
Tartarus

Chthonic deities
Hades and Persephone,
Gaia, Demeter, Hecate,
Iacchus, Trophonius,
Triptolemus, Erinyes

Uranus hid the Hecatonchires and the Cyclopes in Tartarus so that they would not see the light, rejoicing in this evil doing!. This caused pain to Gaia (Tartarus was her bowels) so she created grey flint (or adamantine) and shaped a great flint sickle, gathering together Cronos and his brothers to ask them to obey her!. Only Cronos, the youngest, had the daring to take the flint sickle she made, and castrate his father as he approached Gaia to have intercourse with her!. And from the drops of blood and semen, Gaia brought forth still more progeny, the strong Erinyes and the armoured Gigantes and the ash-tree Nymphs called the Meliae!.

From the testicles of Uranus in the sea came forth Aphrodite!. For this, a Greek etymologist urged, Uranus called his sons "Titans," meaning "strainers" for they strained and did presumptuously a fearful deed, for which vengeance would come afterwards; for, as Uranus had been deposed by his son, Cronos, so was Cronos destined to be overthrown by Zeus, the son born to him by his sister-wife Rhea!. In the meantime, the Titans released the Cyclopes from Tartarus, and Cronos was awarded the kingship among them, beginning a Golden Age!.

After Uranus's castration, Gaia gave birth to Echidna and Typhon by Tartarus!. By Pontus, Gaia birthed the sea-deities Nereus, Thaumas, Phorcys, Ceto and Eurybia!.

Zeus hid Elara, one of his lovers, from Hera by hiding her under the earth!. His son by Elara, the giant Tityas, is therefore sometimes said to be a son of Gaia, the earth goddess, and Elara!.

Gaia also made Aristaeus immortal!.

Gaia is believed by some sources (Joseph Fontenrose 1959 and others) to be the original deity behind the Oracle at Delphi!. She passed her powers on to, depending on the source, Poseidon, Apollo or Themis!. Apollo is the best-known as the oracle power behind Delphi, long established by the time of Homer, having killed Gaia's child Python there and usurped the chthonic power!. Hera punished Apollo for this by sending him to King Admetus as a shepherd for nine years!.

Oaths sworn in the name of Gaia, in ancient Greece, were considered the most binding of all!.

In classical art Gaia was represented in one of two ways!. In Athenian vase painting she was shown as a matronly woman only half risen from the earth, often in the act of handing the baby Erichthonius (a future king of Athens) to Athena to foster (see example below)!.

Later in mosaic representations she appears as a woman reclining upon the earth surrounded by a host of Carpi, infant gods of the fruits of the earth (see example below under Interpretations)!.


[edit] Family tree

Gaia hands her newborn, Erichtonius, to Athena as Hephaestus watches - an Attic red-figure stamnos, 470–460 BCGaia is the titan of Earth and these are her offspring as related in various myths!. Some are related consistently, some are mentioned only in minor variants of myths, and others are related in variants that are considered to reflect a confusion of the subject or association!.

Through Parthenogenesis
Uranus
Pontus
Ourea
With Elara
Tityas
With Oceanus
Creusa
Spercheus
With Pontus
Ceto
Eurybia
Phorcys
Nereus
Thaumas
With Aether
Uranus
With Poseidon
Antaeus
Charybdis
With Tartarus
Echidna
Typhon
With Uranus
Cyclopes
Arges
Brontes
Steropes
Hecatonchires
Briareus
Cottus
Gyes
Elder Muses
Mneme
Melete
Aoide
Titans
Coeus
Crius
Cronus
Hyperion
Iapetus
Mnemosyne
Oceanus
Phoebe
Rhea
Tethys
Theia
Themis
With Hephaestus
Erichthonius of Athens
Unknown father!? or Through Parthenogenesis
Mimas
Pheme
Python

[edit] Interpretations
Etymologically Gaia is a compound word of two elements!. Ge, meaning "Earth", is found in many neologisms, such as Geography (Ge/graphos = writing about Earth) and Geology (Ge/logos = words about the Earth)!. *Ge is a pre-Greek substrate word that some relate to the Sumerian Ki, also meaning Earth!. Aia is a derivative of an Indo-European stem meaning "Grandmother"!. The full etymology of Gaia would, therefore, appear to have been "Grandmother Earth" [1]!. Some sources, such as anthropologists James Mellaart, Marija Gimbutas and Barbara Walker, claim that Gaia as the Mother Earth is a later form of a pre-Indo-European Great Mother who had been venerated in Neolithic times, but this point is controversial in the academic community!. Belief in a nurturing Earth Mother is often a feature of modern Neopagan "Goddess" worship, which is typically linked by practitioners of this religion to the Neolithic goddess theory!. For more information, see the article Goddess!.

Hesiod's separation of Rhea from Gaia was not rigorously followed, even by the Greek mythographers themselves!. Modern mythographers like Karl Kerenyi or Carl A!. P!. Ruck and Danny Staples, as well as an earlier generation influenced by Frazer's The Golden Bough, interpret the goddesses Demeter the "mother," Persephone the "daughter" and Hecate the "crone," as understood by the Greeks, to be three aspects of a former Great Goddess, who could be identified as Rhea or as Gaia herself!. Such tripartite goddesses are also a part of Celtic mythology and may stem from the Proto-Indo-Europeans!. In Anatolia (modern Turkey), Rhea was known as Cybele, a goddess derived from Mesopotamian Kubau, Hurrian Kebat or Kepa!. The Greeks never forgot that the Mountain Mother's ancient home was Crete, where a figure some identified with Gaia had been worshipped as Potnia Theron (the "Mistress of the Animals") or simply Potnia ("Mistress"), an appellation that could be applied in later Greek texts to Demeter, Artemis or Athena!.


Aion and Terra Mater (Gaia) with four children, perhaps the personified seasons, mosaic from a Roman villa in Sentinum, first half of the 3rd century BC, (Munich Glyptothek, Inv!. W504)In Rome the imported Phrygian goddess Cybele was venerated as Magna Mater, the "Great Mother" or as Mater Nostri, "Our Mother" and identified with Roman Ceres, the grain goddess who was an approximate counterpart of Greek Demeter, but with differing aspects and venerated with a different cult!. Her worship was brought to Rome following an Augury of the Cumaean Sibyl that Rome could not defeat Hannibal the Carthaginian until the worship of Cybele came to Rome!. As a result she was a favoured divinity of Roman legionaries, and her worship spread from Roman military encampments and military colonies!.


[edit] In other cultures
The idea that the fertile earth itself is female, nurturing mankind, was not limited to the Greco-Roman world!. These traditions themselves were greatly influenced by earlier cultures in the Central area of the ancient Middle East!. In Sumerian mythology Tiamat influenced Biblical notions of The Deeps in Genesis 1!. The title "The mother of life" was later given to the Akkadian Goddess Kubau, and hence to Hurrian Hepa, emerging as Hebrew Eve (Heva) and Phygian Kubala (Cybele)!. In Norse mythology the Great Mother, the mother of Thor himself, was known as Jord, Hlódyn, or Fj?rgyn!. The Irish Celts worshipped Danu, whilst the Welsh Celts worshipped D?n!. Dana played an important part in Hindu mythology and hints of their names throughout Europe, such as the Don river, the Danube River, the Dnestr and Dnepr, suggest that they stemmed from an ancient Proto-Indo-European goddess [2]!. In Lithuanian mythology Gaia - ?em? is daughter of Sun and Moon!. also she is wife of Dangus (Varuna)!. In Pacific cultures, the Earth Mother was known under as many names and with as many attributes as cultures who revered her for example Māori whose creation myth included Papatuanuku, partner to Ranginui - the Sky Father!. In South America in the Andes a cult of the Pachamama still survives (in reWww@QuestionHome@Com

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