Gaea

**Gaea**, also known as the **Earth Mother Goddess**, the **Earth Goddess**, the **Goddess of Life** and the **Will of the Earth**, is the Primordial Goddess of the earth, life, breeding, fertility, and creation, worshiped as the very embodiment of the Earth.

## Overview

Gaea is the progenitor of every version of the planet Earth, they come from her like rays of light comes from the sun. Her counterpart and main consort is the sky father Dyēus, considered her equal and opposite as well as being theorized to be the same being. With Dyēus, she mothered many children, notably the Titans, Perkwunos, H₂éwsōs, El, and Asherah. She is the Earth mother goddess worshiped throughout the Earthly cultures under many, many names.

From her interactions with the various pantheons of Earth, she has had many children with many consorts. While Dyēus is her main consort, that doesn't necessarily mean that he is her only consort. Her most notable consorts are Odin, Tartarus, and Enki, and with them she notably mothered respectively Thor, Meili, and Typhoeus.

## Appearance

Gaea has no physical form being a primordial entity, but being the personification of the Earth, she is believed to be an omnipresent multifaceted entity of the terrestrial globe in all its manifestations and variants of the entire Multi-Universe, without restrictions. Gaea is the very will of planet Earth, and at the same time it is the planet itself and a separate being.

When Gaea manifests, she often manifests as a woman of supernatural beauty, usually wearing clothing associated with the planet, such as a green dress.

## Personality

Due to her title as the Mother of Earth, Gaea is considered the ideal mother (similar to Life herself), protecting and loving her children. People believe that she will do anything to protect them, and that is seemingly the case. Gaea, for example, had no mercy in engineering the death of Dyēus with the help of her son Cronus. No wonder she is known to be very cruel to anyone who threatens them, including her own husband and grandchildren. Gaea is also quite manipulative and vindictive, preferring others to "get their hands dirty" instead of her.

Despite that, however, she hated senseless violence, wars, and lust for power, further showing her motherly and benevolent side as the "Mother Earth". As she rather displeased by the younger god's behavior for waging war and making senseless battles from little to no sense of reason. So much that she cursed the younger generation the "curse of blood". A curse and a prophecy where the cycle of parents will not trust and murder their children, and children will overthrow or murder their parents before them, and take over their parent's thrones and claim it for themselves.

After that she vanish and watch from the higher plane of existence to see her descendants fall into madness. She prefers to linger on the Human realm, rather than her own family.

## Powers and Abilities

**Alpha Physiology:** Gaea is vastly superior to any member of her species, learning and achieving quickly and effortlessly what takes years of hard work for others and growing substantially stronger and better with each challenge.

**Earth Deity Physiology:** Gaea is an Earth Deity. Earthian Deities are gods and goddesses who represent or are associated with the planet Earth or earth-like planets, the lands, mountains, hills, valleys, caves and, in the case of Chthonic Deities, the underground.

**Fertility Deity Physiology:** A Fertility Deity is a goddess who represents or is associated with fertility, virility, sex, sexual health, reproduction, procreation, pregnancy, birth, nature, vegetation and crops.

**Mother Goddess Physiology:** As the mother goddess, a goddess entity who represents, or is the personification of, nature, motherhood, fertility, creation, destruction; or, who embodies the bounty of the Earth.

**Mother Nature Physiology:** As the mother nature, personification of nature that focuses on the life-giving and nurturing aspects of nature by embodying it in the form of the mother and associated with fertility, fecundity, and agricultural bounty.

**Nature Deity Physiology:** Gaea with this ability either is or can transform into a nature deity, a goddess who represents or is associated with or in charge of forces of nature such as a water deity, vegetation deity, sky deity, solar deity, fire deity or any other naturally occurring phenomena such as mountains, trees, or volcanoes.

**Embodiment Creation:** Gaea can create creatures, entities or objects that embody a concept, force or idea, either by creating an entirely new creature or object to embody the desired concept or by transforming a pre-existing object or creature into the desired embodiment.

**Seer:** Gaea is a seer, an individual who can see things hidden from others and also has the ability to predict the future or speak for the gods.

**World Connection:** Gaea has a deep physical, mental, emotional or spiritual connection with the world and everything in it including all its countless lifeforms, elements, aspects, etc., allowing them a deep understanding of the world, what it can do, and how it applies to them.

## History

### Birth & Early life

Gaea was born from the Watery Abyss in order to help Khaos fight in the Primeval Wars. It is unknown what her contributions were nor who she fought over the war. The war did eventually end however, and God started to Create the Physical Realm, a realm that Gaea became very interested in, so she emanated a part of herself into every crevice of this new realm. After she was done, Gaea settled down with fellow primordial Dyēus, their first child being Oceanus. Dyēus came every night to mate with her, and many children, named and unnamed, were born from this union, most notably the Hecatonchires, the Elder Cyclops, and the Titans.

### Conflict among kin

As the children of Gaea and Dyēus grew older, Dyēus came to despise his uglier children, the Hecatonchires and the Cyclops. He trapped them in Tartarus, which greatly angered and saddened Gaea. Gaea asked the youngest of the Titans, Cronus, to use a sickle she created to stop Dyēus and free his siblings from Tartarus. So he gathered the rest of his siblings and declared war upon his father, with the conflict ending with Cronus castrating Dyēus and freeing his siblings from Tartarus. Dyēus then abdicated his power to them, giving them the name Titans. The blood from Dyēus' castrated testicles fell on to Gaea, producing the Furies, the Giants and the Meliae.

But as Cronus was celebrating their victory, Gaea came to him and delivered a prophecy that he would be succeeded in power by his children. In response, Cronus starting devouring his children as soon as their born, which further saddened Gaea. However, Rhea came to her and Dyēus asking to help her keep their youngest child from Cronus. They devised a plan to trick him into think that he consumed this child by giving him a stone wrapped in swaddling-clothes while the child is hidden away to be raised by Gaea, this child would later be named Zeus.

While Zeus was still young, the Elder Cyclops made a weapon known as the Master Bolt for Zeus to use when he was older. This weapon was incredibly powerful and struck terror into Gaea, she hid it away fearing what putting this weapon into anyone's hands would do. However over the course of advising and training Zeus throughout his youth, she realized that this weapon would greatly advantage him in battling his father, and she allowed the Elder Cyclops to give Zeus the Master Bolt. When Zeus grew up, he managed to free his siblings and defeat his father, trapping him within Tartarus with the other Titans that opposed them. This did nothing to quell Gaea's rage, if anything it stoked the flames further.

## Myths and Legends

Gaea is the reconstructed is a presumably goddess who was worshiped by the ancient Proto-Indo-Europeans.

## Quotes

*"This world and I share many things. Most importantly: the will to survive." - Gaea*