GAIA-MOTHER OF ALL
Gaea, Grecian Primordial Being; Creator of Life; Supreme Being; Family and Tribes
"Earth." She is believed to have emerged from Chaos. A supreme power, she created everything -- the universe, deities, and humans; an "all-producing and all-nourishing" goddess. She may have been an earlier Phoenician goddess whom
the Greeks took as their own. She had many children, including
Agdistis, Ceto, and Charybdis, some by herself and some with male impregnation. She was the mother of the first race, the Titans. She was also the mother of the Moirae, the Erinyes, and the Muses with Uranus or Aether. In later times, she was
assimilated by other goddess, just as she had assimilated Titaea. Her Roman name is Tellus. Similar to Mulaprakriti, Indian Subcontinent.
Equivalent to Apia and Ghe, Near East. Alternate forms: Anesidora, Curotrophos, Euonyme,
Eurysternos, Gaia, Ge, Ma, Pandora. (Bell 1991; Eliot 1976; Leach 1992; Monaghan 1981; Neumann 1972; Stone 1979; Zimmerman 1964).