Gaia goddess statue

Today's mythology word is geology, which comes from the name of the Greek goddess Gaia, which is also the Greek word for the earth herself. To learn more about Gaia, see Wikipedia. There are many more words formed from this same Greek root: geography, geode, geodesic, geometry, geopolitcal, etc. The name "George" also contains the same root: "George" is from the Greek word georgos, "farmer," someone who works the earth (geo-ergos). This is a statue of Gaia in Lysá nad Labem (Czech Republic).

This is a statue of Rhea Silvia and her two sons Romulus and Remus. The twin demigods are essential to the Rome foundation myth, which even as time continued, bring the Roman citizens together as they embrace their origins.

In Greek mythology, from Ancient Greek Γαῖα, is the personification of the Earth and one of the Greek primordial deities. Gaia is the ancestral mother of all life: the primal Mother Earth goddess. She is the mother of Uranus (the sky), from whose sexual union she bore the Titans (themselves parents of many of the Olympian gods) and the Giants, and of Pontus (the sea), from whose union she bore the primordial sea gods. Her equivalent in the Roman pantheon was Terra.

Goddess Gaia or Earth Mother statue photo credit from IG @the.gypsy.witch

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