![]() ![]() In Mycenean Greek Ma-ka (transliterated as Ma-ga, "Mother Gaia") also contains the root ga. The Greek name Γαῖα ( Gaia Ancient Greek: or ) is a mostly epic, collateral form of Attic Γῆ ( Gē ), and Doric Γᾶ ( Ga ), perhaps identical to Δᾶ ( Da ), both meaning " Earth". ![]() Her equivalent in the Roman pantheon was Terra. She is the mother of Uranus (the sky), from whose sexual union she bore the Titans (themselves parents of many of the Olympian gods), the Cyclopes, and the Giants as well as of Pontus (the sea), from whose union she bore the primordial sea gods. Gaia is the ancestral mother-sometimes parthenogenic-of all life. In Greek mythology, Gaia ( / ˈ ɡ eɪ ə, ˈ ɡ aɪ ə/ Ancient Greek: Γαῖα, romanized: Gaîa, a poetical form of Γῆ ( Gê), meaning 'land' or 'earth'), also spelled Gaea / ˈ dʒ iː ə/, is the personification of the Earth and one of the Greek primordial deities. ![]()
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