Gaea, the Earth

Gaea. In Greek mythology, Gaea was a deity that was born of Chaos, and she was the Earth. She created a husband for herself, called Ouranos, who was the sky, and out of the mist of Chaos, she created the seas, Pontus. Her first sons with Ouranos were the twelve Titans, who were six boys and six girls. Ouranos began drifting away from Gaea, and so Gaea had three more sons. These sons were the Elder Cyclopes, who would eventually become the Cyclopes. Ouranos was disgusted by the one-eyed ugliness of the Elder Cyclopes, so he forged chains out of the blackness of the night sky, and bound the Cyclopes, to toss them in Tartarus. Later, to try and patch things up with Ouranos, she had three more sons. These sons were even more ugly than the Elder Cyclopes, with fifty heads and one hundred hands. She named them the Hekatoncheires, or the Hundred-Handed Ones. Ouranos again bound them and threw them in Tartarus. Gaea had a daughter with Tartarus, called Kampe, to keep the Cyclopes and Hekatoncheires in Tartarus. When the Titans again threw the Elder Cyclopes and Hekatoncheires in Tartarus, Zeus was born, who would eventually take over the Titans. To conceal his birth from Cronus, his father, Gaea gave birth to the Kouretes, who would drown out the babys crying with loud noises. Gaea also had a son with Pontus, named Nereus, who is one of the sea gods. To overthrow Zeus, she had many sons with Tartarus, called the Gigantes, and then a son and a daughter, called Typhon and Echidna. With Aither, she had many daimon children.

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Parents: Chaos, the Deity of the Aether

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Children:
 * 1) Ouranos, the Sky
 * 2) Pontus, the Seas
 * 3) The Titans
 * 4) The Elder Cyclopes
 * 5) The Hekatoncheirs
 * 6) The Kouretes
 * 7) Nereus
 * 8) The Gigantes
 * 9) Typhon
 * 10) Echidna
 * 11) Kampe
 * 12) Dolus, Daimon of Trickery and Treachery
 * 13) Lyssa, Goddess of Mad Rage
 * 14) Penthos, Daimon of Grief
 * 15) Poine, Daimon of Retribution for Murder
 * 16) Aergia, Daimon of Laziness