"GAEA/TERRA = TELLUS"

Since mythology is somewhat broad and have many characters, i will be posting two gods per post.

"All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent. - Tennessee Williams"

Known to the Greeks as Gaea and to the Romans as Terra, this Goddess gave life to all of the other gods that would follow. Her role was that of the Earth Mother, which we now know today as Mother Nature, and she was one of the Great Titans who was once thought to have held dominion over the universe.

Formed from Chaos (air), the gap that originally separated the Heavens from the Earth, this goddess would go on to give rise to all of the other gods that would follow. One of the first to be brought forth would be her son,Uranus, god of the sky, and from their union would spring forth most of the other gods. While we might be uncomfortable with the idea of a mother and a son having children together, the ancient gods held no such reservations, creating some very interesting and weird unions in their time.

Uranus would not be the only son born without the aid of a father. Pontus, god of the sea, and Ourea, god of the mountains, were born the same way.

Gaea is the Earth goddess. She mated with her son Uranus to produce the remaining Titans. Gaea seems to have started as a neolithic earth-mother worshiped before the Indo-European invasion that eventually lead to the Hellinistic civilization.

NOTE: the topics that are being posted depends on the source that i may have browsed. details may vary from other sources...