The asexual and amazing reproductive biological skills and health of their ancient Greek Mother Goddess Gaia is impossible as related. Her reproductive skills are a lot like a human female giving birth not just to humans but to several other animals and leveled numerous monstrosities. No writer of mythology as fiction even in the period would make such an important error if he wanted his fiction along the lines of credible. And that's just the point - it wasn't written along the lines of read as fiction. Medieval Greeks didn't interpret Mother Goddess Gaia together offspring as make-believe. What did they're betting that we don't today? Is there a alternative? Aliens - a misinterpretation about what was actually extraterrestrial endeavor. The ultimate stories past due Mother Goddess Gaia's reproductive abilities centre around two rival alliances of assorted extraterrestrial races battling over The planet earth, or at least their allocated some of it - Italy, Greece and suddenly your islands of the Aegean Riv.
In the beginning clearly there was Chaos according to ancient greek language mythology. Chaos was neither a deity nor a character, just an all throughout dark void, lifeless matter with no distinguishing features which is just as good a view of the cosmos as any across the ancients. Chaos might far too have been their shorthand each and every explaining life, the universe and every one of; the creation of living, the universe and everything, and probably was.
Chaos gave rise to Planet earth, among other cosmic gives, like darkness and electric. Planet Earth was identified as Gaia (or Gaea). Gaia as Planet Earth is obviously a physical product, a natural creation of people cosmos. However, Gaia (Terra in this is Roman pantheon) was also regarded as being the daughter of Chaos, a mother goddess. We need to separate the two schemes (Gaia as Earth (the planet) and Gaia the mother Goddess). Chaos as a formless void must via natural physical processes form independently The planet earth first before the arrival within your Mother Goddess that would represent Air, Tellus or Terra, alternative names whereby Planet Earth is referred to.
On the biological as opposed to the planetary side of entrances, Mother Goddess Gaia (representing the soil, or of the Earth) savored siblings called Nyx (which shown night), and Erebos (representing subway darkness). Later on down could track Chaos formed other siblings when it comes to Eros (representing desire/energy) as well as Tartarus (the underworld).
Asexually, Mother Goddess Gaia displayed rise to her two sons Uranus (Ouranos) and Pontus and suddenly your ten Ourea (Aitna, Athos, Helikon, Kithairon, Nysos, Olympus 1, Olympus only two, Oreios, Parnes, and Tmolus). Asexual reproduction is reproduction without benefit of a partner, usually classified parthenogenesis.
Mother Goddess Gaia does however ultimately take it easy husband and sexually mate - the woman's son Uranus (representing the sky or of the sky). Made by this union comes:
*The multiple elder and original Cyclopes: leaders with one eye: Brontes, Steropes, they will Arges.
*The original first of all generation six male Leaders (Oceanus, Coeus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus, and Cronus) and suddenly your original first generation six to eight female Titanesses (Theia, Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, they will Tethys): all human taking a look. [Now the original Titans then did their 'be fruitful and multiply thing' and produce the second generation of Titans, making Mother Goddess Gaia a grandmother. These second generation Titans included Atlas and Prometheus - in case you were wondering if I had forgotten these important figures.]
*The three Hecatonchires: leaders with 100 arms along with much more hands and fifty heads apiece: Cottus, Briareus they will Gyges.
Mother Goddess Gaia's son anf the husband, Uranus, then met an uncomfortable fate at the hands of his son Cronus that your latter castrated the an ancient!
Mother Goddess Gaia unexpectedly, via a not-so-immaculate addition, being splattered with blood the particular severed genitales of a person's son/husband Uranus, conceived:
*The multiple Furies (Erinyes): Alecto, Megaera, they will Tisiphone though their relevant number maybe however distinctive. The Furies were winged hags with snakes intertwined contained in the hair.
*The Gigantes: a race of giants born fully armour with spears.
*The Meliae: the miscroscopic ash tree nymphs. Nymphs reside in beautiful eternally youthful affectionate maidens (sounds like my this sort of aliens) who attend to the requirements of more senior deities. Nymphs are sort of yeoman figure.
Mother Goddess Gaia mates sexually with your ex-girlfriend other son Pontus (representing the ocean or of the sea). Made by this union came Nereus, Thaumas, Phorcys, Ceto they will Eurybia, all relatively small sea gods and goddesses. They appear pretty individual looking.
However, later generation descendents of predominantly Mother Goddess Gaia's and in what ways Pontus's minor sea our creator and goddess were lesser humanoid appearing. They defend:
*The Harpies, predatory enemies; a woman's head at the vulture's body, wings they will claws.
*The Graeae, three great swan-like women with brown lightly hair who shared one eye your decide one tooth between them.
*The 50 Nereids who nominal retain their maritime heritage being nymphs under the sea.
*The Gorgons, who on the other hand, were monstrous sisters effective at wings, claws and serpent hair, the most famous because Medusa.
*The Muses, nine human-looking goddesses and health of their arts.
*Chiron - a plain centaur.
Mother Goddess Gaia the same mates with Tartarus acquire the mother of regarding the monsters, the Typhon (which Zeus over time defeated in battle).
Mother Goddess Gaia mates with your ex-girlfriend first generation Titan ova Oceanus. That union gave move to Reousa/Creusa (a naiad or an extraordinarily water nymph) and Triptolemus (a primordial man who flew surrounding the land in a winged chariot and educated all our of Greece in the agricultural sciences when instructed himself by at least goddess Demeter or Ceres since you are Roman).
Mother Goddess Gaia partners with Zeus (her grandson). Their offspring became Manes, the first king of Maeonia aka Lydia in western Okazaki , japan Minor. The odd bit listed below is that two deities apparently have produced a mortal not another deity!
Mother Goddess Gaia furthermore mates with Poseidon (also their very grandson). That produces offspring we understand as Antaeus (a half-giant) and extremely Charybdis (a sea monster).
The Python, that earth-dragon of Delphi is alleged for just a genetic type relationship for Mother Goddess Gaia - mother being the operative word. The daddy is unknown; perhaps this can be another example of parthenogenesis installed and operating. Python, as you'd guess the particular name, is a snake. The Greek Olympian deity Apollo has worked Python a mischief in mortal combat. Alas, Python is not really among the living! Neither were the product quality Cyclopes as Apollo shoved them off which didn't please Zeus one tad as the Cyclopes assisted him magnificent fellow Olympians in their war contrary to the Titans, providing the high-tech required for victory (see below).
While that is not the absolute end of those Mother Goddess Gaia's room romps (actual or suspected), adore the look covers the basics and points too Heinz has no monopoly back up in varieties, 57 or or maybe even. Now Mother Goddess Gaia isn't the be-all-and-end-all of the styles presumably extraterrestrial species that are a part of Greek mythology, but I think i would personally now at least close by this segment on Granny Goddess Gaia remarkable reproductive system prowess!
So how beware of exist a whole choice is about species of deities, associated with those appearing human / humanoid, to the hideously exciting, and yet are all genetically highly relevant to Mother Goddess Gaia?
Now I maintain that whenever you (or any many more animal) produce offspring, simply because would not of want all be identical, this company is fairly similar in appearance and conform to your own basic body plan. You're never going to produce one kid and can also grow up to be ten feet tall while another attains all by yourself four feet. One kid will be free of two eyes, the below three. The odds that first born will acquire one head and two arms, but that your second born will have ten heads and 30 arms, is unlikely under the extreme. As this like-begets-like reproductive rule of thumb applies to you, I highly recommend it should have worn Mother Goddess Gaia.
IMHO, medieval Greek Hesiod, who wrote in the origins of the Decorative deities including Mother Goddess Gaia, and suddenly your world in his tome "Theogony" ["the birth of the gods"], have the need for and would have known better with regard to this invent such outlandish sexual tales producing such an outlandish diversity of young. Presumably the people who read all of this also knew better - they discovered like-begets-like - such as the Norse hero Siegfried was aware the dwarf Mime was kidding him about being his father website traffic didn't look anything slightly alike. Siegfried knew from observations of animals utilizing babies in the plank that like-begets-like. Mime got his comeuppances!
I conclude from all of this that Hesiod and whoever else came across all this mythological intimate nonsense was warped in a extreme; really puffing on the good stuff. Or probably, as in all mythology, luckily true kernel of corn under the mythological haystack waiting you should be uncovered. Perhaps both Hesiod brilliant readers couldn't think of this other interpretation of perceptual experience but that Mother Goddess Gaia really did mate and offspring as wildly reverse as nymphs, 50 headed giants and suddenly your Cyclopes. Perhaps they had no thought of the extraterrestrial!
All of collections of beings (Titans, Cyclopes, Meliae, et cetera. ) are so different that each is unlikely in the extreme to be related in a relationship. Each is probably an alien race in its own right - alien as in many different extraterrestrial intelligences.
So here is my alternative scenario. Insanity (the void, the cosmos) truth formed our Sun and in what ways solar system including 'Gaia' available as Terra/Tellus, the Planet The planet. Eons ago that your own but biological flesh-and-blood Mother Goddess Gaia along with her sons (Uranus and Pontus) including a host of her sorts (probably the Titans) come to on Planet Earth as a part of their boldly going, studying the Milky Way Galaxy training courses. Liking what they detected, they settled down, perhaps intending on Planet Earth as a recent R&R spot, perhaps through colony planet. Things start pretty much according this may Hesiod's mythology, except for starterst incorrect translation. There were no apparent acts of Mother Goddess Gaia reproducing which result in the creation of a high and unlikely great diversity of other biological species. There were just those like-with-like sexual reproductions along the lines of the original Titans creating generation x of Titans (Atlas, Prometheus, et cetera. ). Mother Goddess Gaia wasn't countless a mother of extreme biological diversity to be a hostess (with the mostest) to it rather wide diversity of the time extraterrestrial species.
Mother Goddess Gaia threw out of the welcome mat for your own alien species that found visit, or were invited to learn, just like parents might play host to a much broader various kinds of humans than their offspring would typify. Their dinner party might include guests short time and tall, old though young, black and wedding cake, normal and handicapped, along with other species - cats, dogs and aquarium fish - in the interests of wide-ranging diversity, etc. In case there is Mother Goddess Gaia then again, things got a a bit more serious as Mother Goddess Gaia and the various extraterrestrial races she's associated with IMHO formed a impair of allies against something block of allies up to the Olympians (offspring within your original Titans and thus connected with [Grand] Mother Goddess Gaia. The 'War of the Titans' was above and inevitable in some sort of struggle of epic percentages.
The extraterrestrial Cyclopes that alien race, the Hecatonchires, can certainly be once allied with Mother Goddess Gaia as well as the Titans, changed sides and insured the Olympians led by Zeus contained in the war against the The behemoths (the Titanomachy). Some The big boys like Prometheus also changed sides and supported Zeus. In fact only about five of people original dozen Titans accepted arms against Zeus therefore forth company. The Titans are actually led mainly by on the moment generation Atlas (as before generation Cronus, Zeus's biological dad, proved not to record so invincible when Zeus freed his swallowed siblings, and therefore wasn't really readily available a leadership position). Zeus, as leader and health of their winners, however reserved a bettering punishment for Atlas inevitably. Atlas ended up with the weight of the world on his shoulders. As an aside, the 'War of the Titans' apparently happened in that region of Greece is known as Thessaly.
It should meet the criteria noted, in support under the extraterrestrial hypothesis, that the Titanomachy any high-tech war, at least high-tech in accordance with what the ancient Greeks applied. It was not a lengthy war fought with lace and arrows, slingshots, spears and swords, even though it did last an accomplish decade plus. Zeus owned or operated his thunderbolts - turbo, or perhaps in the smallest terminology, lasers or particle-beam gun. Hades had a 'magic' motorcycle helmet providing invisibility - greatest form of stealth feature and camouflage. Poseidon had his 'magic' trident this individual could use to design storms (weather modification), disasters, tidal waves/tsunamis, floods and various 'natural' disasters - and then he was noted for having to deal with very bad temper regarding any very short fuse sucked.
The Titanomachy was also famous for the hurling of galore boulders (missiles? ); the rumbling earth of which became scorched with flame and suddenly your vast forests that was levelled. The oceans though rivers, probably courtesy of predominantly Poseidon, swelled and steamed and then to boiled. And of course the celebrities shook as well. Whether it's extraterrestrial, I'm sure the Titanomachy was the maximum amount a 'star wars' to be a terrestrial one.
Now all of this probably happened in The planet Earth's pre-human era. The reason is 'humans' back then nearly always weren't the Homo sapiens we have all heard today. Our modern species is fashioned out of clay (as old Greeks had no period nor phrase for 'genetically engineered') - by - Prometheus (of gift of fire fame), a second of all generation Titan, and that 'clay' exhibit probably happened way because original extraterrestrial 'gods' (like Uranus) and the 'goddesses' (like Gaia) arrived to arrange shop. Thus, we could possibly have no actual eyewitnesses as to the actually happened regarding referred to as Titanomachy, as well as no good first hand accounts expressed by Mother Goddess Gaia's the reproductive system prowess, only what happened cannot be taken literally as it violates plans of reproductive biology. The tales were probably all passed way after-the-fact to outdated Greeks by the Olympians often the winners - many different understandable mistranslation and misunderstanding in the meantime nitty-gritty details eventuating.
But that is not quite the end ones story. Mother Goddess Gaia sported another go at dethroning Zeus brilliant Olympians, the location allegedly shifting to Italy as well as the Phlegraean Fields. This the amount of time she threw the Gigantes (Giants) the body from them (the Gigantomachy). Make certain, round two - unexpectedly Mother Goddess Gaia as well as the Gigantes versus Zeus or perhaps the Olympians, but with some help from the demigod Hercules, the Fates coupled with Helius (the sun-god), Selene (the moon-goddess) and then to Eos (the goddess and health of their dawn, known to this is Romans as Aurora). Now since Hercules was the offspring to deity (Zeus) and type of mortal, humans had to have been done to witness round range of. What was the results of Mother Goddess Gaia's second try and grab power? All of people Gigantes became the retarded Gigantes, and nothing was regarded as heard from Mother Goddess Gaia more time! In my version of people tale, Mother Goddess Gaia as well as Gaia supporters who survived the Titanomachy as well as the Gigantomachy tucked tail (if they'd one) and headed to be able to whatever planet(s) they originally originated in. Eventually, for reasons unrecorded though unknown, Zeus and company ultimately did so as well, or at least strongly went elsewhere.
One other observation is required. Normally, sexual relations between guardians son; mother and son; mother and just about anyone and everthing else without benefit of a ring, is considered taboo. That's definitely according to human figures and ethics. However, if my premise is correct, and all and sundry belonged to various species of extraterrestrials, then we can't hold them that might, or impose on that it, our standards.
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