Gaia Flashcards
(21 cards)
What is Gaias title?
Mother Earth
What is Gaia’s time (IDK HOW TO PHRASE IT)
Primordial
Where was she born?
Out of the void.
Who are her parents?
She has none
How did she form
She wrapped herself around rocks and metors until she was finally able to make earth.
Who are her two sons
Pontos and Ouranos
Who did she marry
Ouranos
Why did she marry?
Because she had finished making earth and Eros kept giving her dreams of love.
Who gave her the dreams of love
Eros
Why did Gaia marry Ouranos
Because he seemed calmer than Pontus, who seemed raging and aggresive,
Why did she become furious with him?
Because he poisoned her children and then threw them into tartarus
What did she do to her husband?
She asked her sons to attack him
Who attacked Ouranos for Gaia.
Kronos
What did he attack his father with?
A sickle
What did Gaia ask Kronos to do after he attacked his father?
To free her children from Tartarus
Did Kronos comply?
No
Why didn’t Kronos comply
Because he was all powerful and didn’t need to listen to her. Also he simply doesn’t care for her.
What did Gaia do then?
She got tired of fighting and gave up
What child did Gaia take care of that wasn’t her own
Zeus
Why did she do this?
To help Rhea overthrow Kronos
What did Zeus do to his father?
After his siblings got thrown up he chopped Kronos into a million pieces and threw him into Tartarus
