Mother Earth As Gaia

Mother earth as Gaia is a Greek representation of Goddess Earth. Gaia, more frequently spelled as Ge was the connotation to earth. Gaia is the great Greek earth mother. There are two versions of her creation in Greek mythology. In both the versions she emerges from chaos through a parthenogenic birth. Gaia was then populated with the necessary Mountains, Seas, flora and fauna. She was the primordial element from which sprang everything that lives: gods, mortals, fruits, grains, flowers, creatures of earth, air and sea, and the starry heavens above. Everything that lives is of her, and to her it shall return at death.

Mother earth as Gaia: Creation of the universe

Mother earth as Gaia is also attributed with the creation of universe. Therefore we can see that the origin and creation of nature and universe is through the feminine principle as portrayed in the Greek mythology. She was considered to be the first and last, and everything in between. She was attributed with deep Earth wisdom, and the gift of prophesy. Gaia is believed by some sources to be the original deity behind the Oracle at Delphi. She passed her powers on to others latter on.

Mother earth as Gaia: The first mother

She is the first mother and her children included the powerful Gods, the Titans, the Giants, the Erinyes and the Nymphs. She strove to protect and nurture them all. No child was unlovely in her eyes. The later part of the Greek mythology says that her power of fertility was usurped by the patriarchy created by her own son Zeus and thereafter Gaia stopped, for the most part, involving herself in the lives of her children.

Various other topics that need detailed study and analysis to understand Mother Earth as Gaia include

1. The Family tree of mother Gaia as per Greek mythology
2. Interpretations of mother Gaia in various mythological stories, cultures and civilizations
3. Mother Gaia In Literature
4. Role of Gaia In modern ecological theory- This topic includes The Gaia Hypothesis
5. The Gaia Hypothesis-The Gaia hypothesis is an ecological hypothesis that proposes that the biosphere and the physical components of the Earth (atmosphere, cryosphere, hydrosphere and lithosphere) are coupled together to form a complex interacting system.
6. History of Gaia Hypothesis
7. Lovelock's initial Gaia hypothesis
8. Controversial concepts related to Gaia hypothesis
9. Critical analysis of Gaia hypothesis
10. Criticism of Gaia hypothesis
11. The Theory
12. Daisyworld simulations
13. First Gaia conference
14. Range of views -Weak Gaia & Strong Gaia
15. Recent developments
16. Second Gaia conference and the major questions that were asked
17. Other theories
18. Third Gaia conference
19. Gaia hypothesis in ecology
20. Gaia hypothesis in Media Studies
21. The Revenge of Gaia
22. Influences of the Gaia hypothesis on Scientific literature , Music, Fiction and Games

Mother earth as Gaia: The Gaia movement

It is sad that the worship of Mother Earth as Gaia went into decline for thousands of years as patriarchal gods supplanted the Goddess. But the good news is that she lives on still, not just in the beautiful world we see around us, but in the Gaia Movement that has was initiated by Sir James Lovelock an independent research scientist in 1970s with the postulation of the Gaia hypothesis. Since then extensive research has taken place in the field of ecology and allied sciences keeping the Gaia hypothesis and movement as the prime theme. Eminent scientists and ecologists have joined the Gaia movement and this environmentalist movement has already seen three full fledge international conferences called as the Gaia conferences. This environmentalist movement sees the entire planet as a single, living organism. Everything is interconnected, mutually dependent, and must be defended. We violate any part of Gaia's creation at grave peril to our souls and to the world. That will be the revenge of Mother Earth as Gaia.

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