But afterwards, Gaia, in union with Tartarus, bore the youngest of her sons Typhon, who would be the last challenge to the authority of Zeus.
Typhon, also spelled Typhaon, or Typhoeus, in Greek mythology, youngest son of Gaea (Earth) and Tartarus (of the nether world).
Soon after, Tartarus was born, Eros, Erebos, Nyx and Ouranos. Later Gaea married her brother Ouranos. By this time, Gaea gave birth to the rustic domains and the mountains (Ourae). Eventually, Gaea and Ouranos had three sets of children together, namely the Titans, the Elder Cyclopes, and the Hekatonkheires.
In the Theogony, Tartarus mated with Gaia and fathered Typhoeus, a vast monster who battled Zeus himself. According to some sources, Tartarus and Gaia were also the parents of the snake-monster Echidna, Thanatos (“Death”), the eagle of Zeus, and the belligerent Giants.
133, 337-370], Oceanus and Tethys are children of Uranus and Gaea; the former the oldest of the Titans, who after the fall of Cronus submitted to Zeus. From him are sprung 3000 sons and as many daughters, the Oceanides. The oldest of the family, which is spread over the whole earth, are Achelous and Styx.
According to the Theogony of Hesiod (117, 12,5, &c.), she was the first being that sprang front Chaos, sand gave birth to Uranus and Pontus.
Gaia, the divine personification of the earth, gave birth to three offspring without any sexual concourse. Gaia's first such child was Uranus, the starry heavens that fit around her perfectly and that provide a home for the immortals.
In line with the Olympian gods' common mores Gaia mother earth slept with her son Uranus producing both a number of hundred-armed giants and three single-eyed cylcops.
In numerous myths, Gaia found herself accidentally pregnant after some god spilled his seed on the earth. Thus, Gaia was sometimes said to have been the mother of the Erinyes, Meliae, and Giants, who were born from the blood that fell upon the earth when Cronus castrated Uranus.
(3) GIANT OFFSPRING
ANTAIOS (Antaeus) A king of Libya (North Africa) who slew travellers to his country to roof the temple of Poseidon with their skulls. He was a son of Poseidon and Gaia the Earth.
(1) DIVINE OFFSPRING. AGDISTIS A Hermaphroditic God born when Zeus accidentally impregnated Gaia the Earth. Fearful of this strange creature the gods castrated it, and it became the goddess Kybele.
According to Hesiod, Chaos independently produced two children: Nyx (“Night”) and Erebus (“Darkness”).
Meanwhile Gaea alone gave birth to Uranus, the heavens. Uranus became Gaea's mate covering her on all sides. Together they produced the three Cyclopes, the three Hecatoncheires, and twelve Titans.
Both concepts occur in the Theogony of Hesiod. First there was Chaos in Hesiod's system, then Gaea and Eros (Earth and Desire). Chaos, however, did not generate Gaea; the offspring of Chaos were Erebus (Darkness) and Nyx.
Cronus learned from Gaia and Uranus that he was destined to be overcome by his own children, just as he had overthrown his father. As a result, although he sired the gods Demeter, Hestia, Hera, Hades, and Poseidon by Rhea, he devoured them all as soon as they were born to prevent the prophecy.
"The four famous Telkhines (Telchines), Aktaios (Actaeus), Megalesios (Megalesius), Ormenos (Ormenus) and Lykos (Lycus), whom Bakkhylides (Bacchylides) calls the children of Nemesis and Tartaros (Tartarus)."
Gaea (the Earth), “the ever-sure foundation of all the deathless ones who hold the peaks of snowy Olympus,” was the first deity to be born after Chaos, the gaping emptiness, came into being. She was followed by Tartarus (the Underworld) and Eros (Love).
A new book, 'The Medea Hypothesis,' looks at the opposite of the Gaia hypothesis and suggests that life on Earth is self-destructive.
As a deity, Tartarus is affiliated with his sister, Gaia who was the earth deity. The two were linked to some of the most evil creatures that existed in ancient Greek. As a god, Tartarus was ranked as the third in power after Chaos (the first deity) and Gaia (earth).
The Primordial Tartarus fell in love with a mortal woman. He spent months with her until she bore him a son. They named him Perseus or Percy when he got older.
Then, according to the Theogony, Uranus mated with Gaia, and she gave birth to the twelve Titans: Oceanus, Coeus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus, Theia, Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, Tethys and Cronus; the Cyclopes: Brontes, Steropes and Arges; and the Hecatoncheires ("Hundred-Handed Ones"): Cottus, Briareus, and Gyges.
Gaia (Ancient Greek: Γαῖα), also spelled Gaea, is the personification of the Earth in Greek mythology. She was a primordial being, one of the first to have sprung forth from the void of Chaos. She is the mother and wife of Ouranos (Father Sky), with whom she sired the Titans, the Hekatonkheires, and the Elder Cyclopes.
Nyx was born directly from Chaos and Tartarus, two of the first protogenoi. She lives in Tartarus in the Mansion of Night, where she stays during the day and leaves during the night. Nyx married her older brother Erebus (Darkness and Mist) and had many children with him.
Talk details. Gaia discovered, at the age of sixteen, that they were asexual.