오늘의 신화 처방
Primordial

Gaia

Γαῖα · Roman 테라 (Terra)

The earth, and mother of everything.

Gaia is not a goddess who rules the earth — she is the earth. In Greek myth, the land is alive from the very start.

Alone, she bore the sky (Uranus), the sea (Pontus), and the mountains; then she took that sky as her husband and bore the Titans.

When Uranus imprisoned her children, Gaia forged a sickle and placed it in the hands of her youngest, Cronus. Myth's first rebellion was a mother's plan.

SourcesHesiod, Theogony

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