Gaia (Greek deity)

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Name (Hebrew)

גאיה (אלה יוונית)

Name (Latin)

Gaia (Greek deity)

Other forms of name

Geja (Greek deity)

Geo (Greek deity)

Geya (Greek deity)

Gē (Greek deity)

Mother Earth (Greek deity)

Earth (Greek deity)

Gaea (Greek deity)

Gaja (Greek deity)

Gā (Greek deity)

Gea (Greek deity)

Geea (Greek deity)

Gaia (Greek deity)

גאיה (אלה יוונית)

Other designation

Greek deity

Goddesses, Greek

Gender

female

VIAF: 3585150033035611180006

Wikidata: Q93172

Library of congress: no2017086882

Sources of Information

Brill's new Pauly online, 30 June 2017(Gaia; Γαῖα; Γῆ; Greek personification of the earth; primal power who gave birth to Uranus (sky) and Pontus (sea); Roman equivalent = Tellus)
Oxford classical dictionary, 1993:page 618 (Gaia, Gē; the Earth; primordial goddess)
Riordan, Rick. The blood of Olympus, 2014.
Wikipedia, 30 June 2017(Gaia; Γαῖα; Γῆ; Γᾶ ; Mother Earth ; primordial deity in Greek mythology; other forms of name: غايا ; Geya ; Гея ; Geja ; Gea ; Geo ; 가이아 ; גאיה ; Gaea ; Gaja ; Геја ; ガイア ; Geea ; 蓋亞)
Work cat.: Classics Digital Library Collection, 2001:(Gaia (Greek deity))
Oxford classical dict., 1996:p. 618 (Gaia, Gē)
Oxford classical dict., 1970:p. 452 ("Gaea" the Earth in general, or a goddess resident in and governing it ... the offspring of Chaos, or at least comes into being after it)
Classical mythology, 1999:p. I-23 ("Earth" Gaia, Gaea, and Ge ... great mother goddess of the earth and fertility)

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