Love Gaia: ~ The Diary Directive

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Gaia had received a prophetic vision that said that the Giants would prevail if they could find a plant that would protect them from harm at the hands of the Olympians. Pindar, Odes translated by Diane Arnson Svarlien. 1990. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Her brother and husband was Phorcys. Together they created the monsters that represented the more specific dangers faced by sailors, such as Ladon, the serpent of swift currents and Scylla, the gigantic crab. Gaia and Pontus together created the powers of the sea. The secrets and dangers of the deep were their children.

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As Zeus and his comrades established their new seat of power at Mount Olympus, Gaia turned against them next. When you hear about “Mother Earth,” you might think of modern environmentalism or New Age spirituality. But the idea of Earth as our mother is as old as civilisation itself. Their son Nereus is more commonly remembered as the Old Man of the Sea. Representing the unknown depths of the ocean, he was a god of mystery and prophesy. In Athens, there was a statue of Gaia on the Acropolis depicting her beseeching Zeus for rain [56] as well as an image of her close to the court of the Areopagos in Athens, alongside the statues of Plouton and Hermes, "by which sacrifice those who have received an acquittal on the Areopagos". [57] Interpretations [ edit ]I don't think people have noticed that, but it's got all the sort of terms that religions use ... The greens use guilt. That just shows how religious greens are. You can't win people round by saying they are guilty for putting (carbon dioxide) in the air. [55]

Exploring our love/hate relationship with Gaia | New Scientist

Gaia is one of the most important deities in ancient Greek mythology. She is known as the “Earth Mother” and is the originator of all – literally. Not to be dramatic, but Gaia is the single oldest ancestor of the Greek gods and goddesses besides the entity known as Chaos, which she emerged from at the beginning of time.Post-Vietnam and Silent Spring, science had fallen from grace and was having to compete with all manner of pseudo-science and wishful thinking. Gaia may have been rooted in genuine science, and its originator a well-regarded chemist, but when the public lapped it up with the enthusiasm they had shown for mysticism or faith healing, many scientists pulled up the drawbridge. He is probably an example of a country god who, once venerated for control over all agriculture and food production, had his role minimized when the archaic Greeks introduced the Olympic pantheon.