Gaea aka Gaia according the Olympian
Greek Mythology Gaia sprung out of Chaos the thevacant unfathomable space from which everything arose and Gaia became the mother of all creation; the goddess of the earth. She bore and married Uranus and became the mother of the Titans and the Cyclopes.
Her union with Chaos; the great void of emptiness within the universe, and with her came Eros. She gave birth to Pontus (the Sea) and Uranus (the Sky). This was achieved parthenogenetically (without male intervention). Other versions say that Gaia had as siblings Tartarus (the lowest part of the earth, below Hades itself) and Eros, and without a mate, gave birth to Uranus (Sky), Ourea (Mountains) and Pontus (Sea).
Gaia took as her husband Uranus, who was also her son, and their offspring included the Titans, six sons and six daughters. She gave birth to the Cyclopes and to three monsters that became known as the "Hecatonchires". The spirits of punishment known as the Erinyes were also offspring of Gaia and Uranus. The Gigantes, finally, were conceived after Uranus had been castrated by his son Cronus, and his blood fell to earth from the open wound.
To protect her children from her husband, (the Cyclopes and the Hecatoncheires, as he was fearful of their great strength), Gaia hid them all within herself. One version says that Uranus was aghast at the sight of his offspring so he hid them away in Tartarus, which are the bowels of the earth. Gaia herself found her offspring uncomfortable and at times painful, when the discomfort became to much to bear she asked her youngest son Cronus to help her. She asked him to castrate Uranus, thus severing the union between the Earth and Sky, and also to prevent more monstrous offspring. To help Cronus achieve his goal Gaia produced an adamantine sickle to serve as the weapon. Cronus hid until Uranus came to lay with Gaia and as Uranus drew near, Cronus struck with the sickle, cutting the genitalia from Uranus. Blood fell from the severed genitals and came in contact with the earth and from that union was born the Erinyes (Furies), the Giants and the Meliae (Nymphs of the manna ash trees).
After the separation of the Earth from the Sky, Gaia gave birth to other offspring, these being fathered by Pontus. Their names were the sea-god Nereus, Thaumas, Phorcys, Ceto and Eurybia. In other versions Gaia had offspring to her brother Tartarus; they were Echidna and Typhon, the later being an enemy of Zeus. Apollo killed Typhon when he took control of the oracle at Delphi, which Gaia originally provided, and then the "Sibyl" sang the oracle in Gaia's shrine.
It was Gaia who saved Zeus from being swallowed by Cronus, after Zeus had been born, Gaia helped Rhea to wrap a stone in swaddling clothes, this was to trick Cronus in to thinking it was Zeus, because Cronus had been informed that one of his children would depose him, and so to get rid of his children he had swallowed them, Gaia's trick worked and Zeus was then taken to Crete.
Gaia immediately bore Pontus, Uranus, the mountains, and (according to some) Tartarus. Also without a mate, Gaia had Alalcomeneus and Cecrops. By Uranus, she bore Agrius, Alcyoneus, Allecto, Aloeus, Antaeus, Arges, Briareus, Brontes, Clytius, Coeus, Cottus, Crius, Cronus, Cynosura, Dione, Enceladus, Ephialtes, Eurymedon, Eurytus, Fama, Gration, Gyes, Hippolytus, Hyperion, Iapetus, Megaera, Mimas, Mnemosyne, Oceanus, Pallas, Phoebe, Polybotes, Polyphemus, Porphyrion, Rhea, Rhoetus, Steropes, Tethys, Theia, Themis, Thoon, Tisiphone, and Tityus. By Pontus, she bore Ceto, Eurybia, Phorcys, Nereus, and Thaumas. By Tartarus she bore Typhon, by Hephaestus Erichthonius, by Poseidon Antaeus and Charybdis, and by Zeus Manes
The planet earth is one giant organism, and that we do not share its consciousness because of our scaling; the idea that our individual cells might be conscious; we humans, might be the equivalent of the individual neurons of a brain communicating with the planet. James Lovelock theory
"The planet has a kind of intelligence, it can actually open a channel of communication with an individual human being. The message that nature sends is, transform your language through a synergy between electronic culture and the psychedelic imagination, a synergy between dance and idea, a synergy between understanding and intuition, and dissolve the boundaries that your culture has sanctioned between you, to become part of this Gaian supermind.
- Terence McKenna
The Gaian biologists, Lovelock, Margulies, and others, have argued persuasively that the entire planet has been self-organized by microbial and planktonic life into a metastable regime favorable to biology and maintained there for over two billion years.
Mother Eart has kept a balance throughout time and space - and this in spite of the repeated bombardment of the earth by asteroidal material sufficient to severely disrupt the planetary equilibrium. We can only admire - and we should seek to imitate such a Tao-like sense of the planet's multidimensional homeostatic balance."
"In one sense the sons & daughters of Gaia have never left the paleolithic; in another sense, all the perfections of the future are already ours.
"Only insurrection will "solve" this paradox - only the uprising against false consciousness in both ourselves & others will sweep away the technology of oppression & the poverty of the Spectacle.
Becoming IS Being. Past & future exist within us & for us, alpha & omega. There are no other gods before or after us. We are free in TIME - and will be free in SPACE as well. "- Hakim Bey - _TAZ_
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