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Greek Mythology Notes

Greek Mythology Notes

An encyclopaedia of Greek mythology — gods, heroes, creatures, places, and the English words they gave us.

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Myth of the Day🌀 primordial

Gaia

Gaia was the primordial Earth goddess, the first being to emerge after Chaos — mother of the Titans, the Giants, and virtually all life in Greek cosmology.

The Gaia hypothesis, proposed by James Lovelock in 1979, treats the entire Earth as a self-regulating system — named directly after this goddess.

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