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Gaea or Gaia also called Mother Earth. In the myth she is the mother of Titans and ancestor of the Olympic Gods. Gaia is the mother of the giant Antaeus who appears in the feature Hercules and the Circle of Fire. Hercules only managed to defeat him thanks to Deianeira's guidance, who remembered that his source of strength was his mother earth, no matter how many times Hercules knocked him down he raised him stronger, so Hercules lifted him above his shoulders and did not let him touch the ground and after dead hurled his carcass on top of his trophy.

In the Myth[]

Gaia is the primordial and personifying the Earth, the Greek version of "Mother Nature". In some myths she is the mother and wife, or just the wife, of Uranus.

Cheiron

statues of Gaea, Poseidon, Zeus Hades and Nike

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