Earth

Also known as: Mother of All / Mother of the gods · Role: goddess · First appears: The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 21–40

In The War of the Titans, Earth and Heaven united and produced three hundred-handed sons and three Cyclopes. In the same account, Aegaeon was born to Earth and Sea.

In The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae, Earth bore peoples to Epaphus, including Aethiopians, Libyans and mare-milking Scythians, described as knowing seercraft by Zeus’s will. The Homeric Hymn to Earth calls her “wife of starry Heaven,” while the hymn to Helios names Hyperion as “the Son of Earth and starry Heaven.”

Relationship record

Life events

• Heaven and Earth united and produced three hundred-handed sons and three Cyclopes.(The War of the Titans)
  • With: Heaven
  • “The fabled union of Heaven and Earth, by which they make three hundred-handed sons and three Cyclopes to be born to him.”
• Aegaeon was born to Earth and Sea.(The War of the Titans)
  • With: Sea Aegaeon
  • “Eumelus says that Aegaeon was the son of Earth and Sea”

The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 21–40

• child: Epaphus “Huge Earth bare these to Epaphus—soothsaying people, knowing seercraft by the will of Zeus the lord of oracles, but deceivers, to the end that men whose thought passes their utterance might be subject to the gods and suffer harm—Aethiopians and Libyans and mare-milking Scythians.”

Homeric Hymn XXX · To Earth the Mother of All

• married with Heaven “Hail, Mother of the gods, wife of starry Heaven;”

Homeric Hymn XXXI · To Helios

• child: Hyperion “the Son of Earth and starry Heaven.”

The War of the Titans

• child: Aegaeon “Eumelus says that Aegaeon was the son of Earth and Sea and, having his dwelling in the sea, was an ally of the Titans.”

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Extracted from the original text of Hesiod and Homerica. Made with Rho MD.