Gaia

Greek mythology · primordial · the earth, motherhood of all

The earth herself, first to arise from Chaos, mother and grandmother of Titans, gods, and monsters alike. She armed Cronus against Uranus and later turned against Zeus, the ground beneath every succession war.

Stories

The Titanomachy

For ten years the young gods war against Cronus and the Titans, until Zeus frees the hundred-handed giants and the Cyclopes forge his thunderbolt. The old order falls into Tartarus; Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades divide the cosmos by lot, and only Prometheus among the Titans stands with the victors.