Gaea

=Gaea=

Embodiment of Earth, and Mother of the Gods
Although she is mentioned all throughout greek mythology the main myth of Gaea is that of creation. The greek creation myth is not finite, as it has many variations but they all basically say that before there was anything there was chaos, an empty void which was everything but consisted of nothing. Then from chaos emerged several primordial gods (protogenoi), some of whom vary between myth, but always named is Gaea. Gaea then gave birth through partenogenisis (a form of asexual reproduction) to Pontus (the sea), Ouranos (the sky), and the Ourea (the hills). She slept with her son Ouranos many times birthing from him the 12 original Titans, 3 Cyclops, and 3 Hecatonchires (hundred handed ones), as well as with her son Pontus, from whom she had 5 Titan-like deities. Ouranos was spiteful of the children he fathered, which troubled Gaea, and when he acted upon this hatred by imprisoning the Cyclops and Hecatonchires deep beneath the earth, she forged a sharp sickle that she brought to the Titans asking if one of them would castrate their father. The only one wiling to preform the task was the youngest Titan Cronos who would soon become king of the gods. He hid, waiting for Ouranos, then cut off his genitals and through them in some near by water. From the blood of Ouranos's wound came the Giants, the Erinyes (female deities of anger and vengeance), and the Meliae (a group of nymphs), and from the white loam of his balls now floating the water was formed Aphrodite.
 * Her Myth**

Along with her two sons Gaea was mate to several others that include; Tartarus (one of the protogenoi emerged from chaos, who was a dark abyss beneath the underworld) with whom she mothered 3 original monsters she would often send after those who disobeyed her will; Aether (an early god, son of protogenoi Erebus and Nyx) with whom she mothered Aergia (goddess of sloth); her grandchild/great grandchild Zeus with whom she mothered Manes (an ancient king); her grandchild/great grandchild Poseidon with whom she mothered Antaeus (a giant) and Charybdis (sea monster), and her great grandchild/great great grandchild Hephaestus with whom she mothered Erichthonius (early ruler of athens), not through sex but by the means of Hephaestus trying to rape Athena, and while being fought off having spilt some semen on her thigh, and her then wiping it off and throwing it to the ground impregnating Gaea.
 * Other Spawn**