Gaia (disambiguation)

Gaia is the Greek goddess of the earth and worlds. In Roman mythology, her other name was Terra, the wife of Caelus. The planet Earth is named after this goddess.

Gaia is mother and wife of the god of the sky and heavens, Uranus. The children of Gaia and Uranus are Titans, Cyclopes, Hecatonchires. Kronos, the youngest Titan, castrated his father Uranus with a sickle. From Uranus's shedded blood which came from his genitals that was fused to him by himself was born Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty by fusing with Gaia's powers. Others of Uranus and Gaia's children from his shedded blood and her powers are Giants, Erinyes, Meliae.

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