1.Who was Gaia?
InGreek mythology,Gaia(/ˈɡeɪ.ə/or/ˈɡaɪ.ə/fromAncient GreekΓαῖα, a poetical form of ΓῆGē, "land" or "earth"[1]), also spelledGaea, is the personification of theEarth[2]and one of theGreek primordial deities. Gaia is the ancestral mother of all life: the primalMother Earthgoddess. She is the immediate parent ofUranus(the sky), from whose sexual union she bore theTitans(themselves parents of many of theOlympian gods) and theGiants, and ofPontus(the sea), from whose union she bore theprimordial sea gods. Her equivalent in the Roman pantheon wasTerra.[3]
2.Why did Uranus hate all of the children Gaia bore him?
Because he feared that someday one of these children would overthrow him.
3.Who were Gaia’s third set of children, and what happened to them?
Their father wanted to kill them.
Because Cronus had learned from Gaia and Uranus that he was destined to be overthrown by one of his children, he swallowed each of the children born to him by his Titan sister Rhea. But when Rhea was pregnant with her youngest child,Zeus, she sought help from Gaia and Uranus. WhenZeuswas born, Rhea gave Cronus a stone wrapped in swaddling-clothes in his place, which Cronus swallowed, and Gaia took the child into her care.[19]
With the help of Gaia's advice,[20]Zeusdefeated the Titans. But afterwards, Gaia, in union with Tartarus, bore the youngest of her sonsTyphon, who would be the last challenge to the authority of Zeus.[21]
