Gaia (mythology)
| Gaea | |
|---|---|
| Goddess of the Earth'' | |
| Abode | Earth |
| Consort | Uranus |
| Parents | Chaos |
| Children | Uranus, Titans |
Gaia/Gaea/Ge was the goddess of the earth in Greek mythology. She came out of Chaos. Many of the Greek gods were her descendants.
Family tree [change]
Gaia 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
- With Elara
- With Oceanus
- With Pontus
- With Aether
- With Poseidon
- With Tartarus
- With Uranus
- With Hephaestus
- With Zeus
- Unknown father or through parthenogenesis
In the book by Rick Riordan, Heroes of Olympus, Gaea is the main evil goddess directing the downfall of the Gods of Mt. Olympus. Gaea is seen torturing the main characters such as Leo Valdez, whom she killed his mom, and Piper Mclean whom she took her dad in ransom for the death of her friends. She enters the main character of Rick Riordan's second book of the series Heroes of Olympus: The Son of Neptune, Percy Jackson's dreams telling him to join her, but Percy refuses her urging. Gaea is revealed to be sleeping and the most powerful of all Greek gods, and in a dream Aphrodite warns Piper that should Gaea awaken they are all doomed, and in a short moment, Medea tells Piper that her patron (Medea's patron) is an enemy they cant "even begin to challenge" referring to Gaea. It is also revealed that Gaea needs the blood of a female and male demigod in The Mark of Athena and that she might rise in the next book to destroy Rome in the book coming in fall The House of Hades.
