GAEA

GAEA or GE, in Greek mythology, the personification of Mother Earth, and the
daughter of Chaos. She was the mother and wife of Father Heaven, who was
personified as Uranus. They were the parents of the earliest living creatures,
the Titans, the Cyclopes, and the Giants the Hecatoncheires (Hundred-Headed
Ones). Fearing and hating the monsters, although they were his sons, Uranus
imprisoned them in a secret place in the earth, leaving the Cyclopes and Titans
at large. Gaea, enraged at this favoritism, persuaded her son, the Titan Cronus,
to overthrow his father. He emasculated Uranus, and from his blood Gaea brought
forth another race of monsters, the Giants, and the three avenging goddesses the
Erinyes. Her last and most terrifying off-spring was Typhon, a 100-headed
monster, who, although conquered by the god Zeus, was believed to spew forth the
molten lava flows of Mount Etna.