Personification of the earth, the first being to emerge out of the primordial chaos. She was the siste
r and wife of \b \cf4 \ATXht12102 Uranus\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 , to whom she bore the \b \cf4 \ATXht12014 Titans\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 . Uranus, who hated and feared his children, concealed them in the depths of the earth (of Gaea) as soon as they were born. Angered
by this, Gaea extracted iron from her own bowels and fashioned a sickle. She gave this weapon to \b \cf4 \ATXht10332 Cronus\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 , the last of her children to be born, who used it to emasculate his father and seized power. From the drops of U
ranus' blood that fell on the earth were born the \b \cf4 \ATXht10511 Erinyes\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 and \b \cf4 \ATXht10703 Giants\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 ; according to one tradition, the drops that fell in the sea created \b \cf4 \ATXht2 Aphrodite\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 .