Dʰéǵʰōm

The Mother of Earth (Photograph by Jean Marcotte)

* Proto-Indo-European - Pleth₂wih₁, Mother Nature, Mother Earth, Earth Mother, Earth
* Greco-Roman - Gaia, Terra, Gaea, Aarde, Mother of the Titans, Goddess of the Earth, Great Mother Goddess, Mother of All Existence, Great Mother, Great Goddess of Earth and Life, Goddess of Life, Supreme Mother Goddess, Tellus Mater, Terra Mater, Will of the Earth, Mother Earth Goddess
* Norse - Jörð, Jǫrð, Jord, Fjörgyn
* Sumerian - Ki, Earth Pivot
* Vedic - Prithvi, Prithvi Mata, pṛthvī, पृथिवी, pṛthivī, the Vast One
* Māori - Papa, Papatūānuku
* Turkic - Umay, Umai, 𐰆𐰢𐰖, Ұмай ана, Umay ana, Умай эне, Umay ene, Ума́й, Ымай, Umáj, Ymaj, Ana
* Hawaiian - Papahānaumoku
* Akan - Asase Ya, Afua, Asase Yaa, Asaase Yaa, Asaase Afua, Asaase Efua
* Slavic - Mokosh, Мóкошь
* Baltic - Žemyna, Žemynėlė, Žemelė
* Finnish - Rauni, Akka, Maa-Ema, Maaemonen
* Canaanite - Ge
* Celtic - Danu, Anann, Anand
* Japanese - Ji-ten

### Affiliation

Tartarus, Earth (Personification), Protogenoi

## Physical Description

### Spirit of

Earth, Creation, Life, Fertility, Maternity

## Relatives

### Consorts

Dyēus, Khaos, Tartarus, Pontus, Zeus, Odin, Enki, Perun, Veles, Perkūnas, The Dagda

### Offspring

* Proto-Indo-European
	+ Perkwunos
	+ H₂éwsōs
* Greco-Roman
	+ The Hecatonchires
		- Briareos
		- Cottus
		- Gyges
	+ The Elder Cyclops
		- Arges
		- Brontes
		- Steropes
	+ The Titans
		- Cronus
		- Crius
		- Coeus
		- Hyperion
		- Iapetus
		- Oceanus
		- Mnemosyne
		- Phoebe
		- Rhea
		- Tethys
		- Theia
		- Themis
	+ Erinyes
		- Alecto
		- Megaera
		- Tisiphone
	+ The Gigantes
	+ The Meliae
	+ The Ourea
	+ The Cyprian Centaurs
	+ Pontus
	+ Nereus
	+ Thaumus
	+ Phorcys
	+ Ceto
	+ Eurybia
	+ Aergia
	+ Antaeus
	+ Janus
	+ Camese
	+ Agdistis
	+ Typhoeus
* Norse
	+ Thor
	+ Meili
* Mesopotamian
	+ Ashur
	+ Enlil
	+ Gibil
	+ Marduk
* Vedic
	+ Ratri
	+ Ushas
* Māori
	+ Tāne
	+ Haumia-tiketike
	+ Rongo
	+ Tangaroa
	+ Tāwhirimātea
	+ Tūmatauenga
	+ Rūaumoko
	+ Whiro
* Turkic
	+ Erlik
	+ Koyash
	+ Ay Ata
	+ Ülgen
* Hawaiian
	+ Hoʻohokukalani
* Akan
	+ Anansi
	+ Tano
	+ Bia
	+ Bosomtwe
	+ Apo
* Slavic
	+ Yarilo
	+ Morana
* Baltic
	+ Perkūnas
* Canaanite
	+ El
	+ Asherah
	+ Astarte
	+ Dagon
	+ Gebal
	+ Bethel
* Celtic
	+ Taranis

**Dʰéǵʰōm**, 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

Dʰéǵʰōm 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 (though it is with the pieces of Therion).

## Appearance

Dʰéǵʰōm 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. Dʰéǵʰōm is the very will of planet Earth, and at the same time it is the planet itself and a separate being.

When Dʰéǵʰōm 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, Dʰéǵʰōm 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. Dʰéǵʰōm, 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. Dʰéǵʰōm 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

Dʰéǵʰōm is one of many strongest Primordials in the Megaverse.

* **Nigh-Omnipresent**: Dʰéǵʰōm **IS** the Earth Mother Goddess, every Earth in every universe is a mere emanation of her true power.
* **Creation**: Dʰéǵʰōm can mold her ideas at will.

## History

### Birth & Early Life

Dʰéǵʰōm 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 plane, a plane that Dʰéǵʰōm became very interested in, so she emanated a part of herself into every crevice of this new plane. After she was done, Dʰéǵʰōm 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.

### Conflicts among kin

As the children of Dʰéǵʰōm 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 Dʰéǵʰōm. Dʰéǵʰōm 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 Dʰéǵʰōm, producing the Furies, the Giants and the Meliae.

But as Cronus was celebrating their victory, Dʰéǵʰōm 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 Dʰéǵʰōm. 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 Dʰéǵʰōm, 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 Dʰéǵʰōm, 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 Dʰéǵʰōm's rage, if anything it stoked the flames further.

### Other events

* Dheghom becomes mad at Zeus for imprisoning the Titans, Dheghom and Tartarus forming Typhoeus from the pieces of Therion
* Didn't like Orion after he said he would kill all animals on Earth so sent Antares to kill him
* Met Shupnikkurat
* Met Carl Black to talk about the One True God

## Myths and Legends

### Mythology

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

### Original

On the *Gods and Demons wiki*, Dʰéǵʰōm is the fusion of several Earth Mother Goddesses from mythology.

## Trivia

* While Dʰéǵʰōm is the will of the world, humans in contrast have their own will, the Collective Unconscious, a sub-power of the soul that comes from God.
* Dʰéǵʰōm is not just an earth goddess but the planet itself personified. Other goddesses, however, are considered earth deities, such as Athena or Rhea.
	+ Such a distinction was due to the fact that the Hellenic world personified its gods, the Earth was incarnated in deities such as Demeter or Cybeles, while Dʰéǵʰōm herself was removed from the myths that linked her as the Earth itself.