n.
Greek goddess of the earth.
She was both mother and wife to Uranus , or Heaven, from whom she was separated by her son Cronus , a Titan . According to Hesiod , she was the mother of all 12 Titans, as well as of the Furies and the Cyclopes (see Cyclops ). She may have originated as a mother goddess worshiped in pre-Hellenic Greece before the introduction of the cult of Zeus .
Gaea, terra-cotta statuette from Tanagra, Greece; in the Musée Borély, Marseille.
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