As Greek mythology’s original Mother Earth, it was often Gaia’s burden to save the world. Imagine being the mother to every single living thing. What would you do if one of your children ...

What can the ancient world's vision of the planet, such as the legend of powerful Greek Goddess Gaia, teach us? Acclaimed historian Bettany Hughes explores our relationship with Mother Earth in ...

Mythology and Folklore: Many cultures regard Earth as a mother figure, a nurturing entity that provides sustenance and life. For example, Gaia in Greek mythology is the Earth personified as a ...

Thus, some scientists say that Gaia, the mother of life, is a poor choice of deity to serve as a metonym for Earth. A better one might be Medea, an enchantress in Greek myth who murdered her own ...

The newly-appointed suffragan Bishop of Doncaster presided over a Holy Communion service featuring ‘Gaia’ as the centrepiece when she was vicar of the prestigious Lancaster Priory in Blackburn Diocese ...

The idea of using the name Gaia — the Greek goddess who personifies the ... explaining that Gaia was not some kind of benevolent Earth mother, but it would take care of itself first, even ...

In Greek mythology, Gaia is the personification of the Earth and the ancestral mother of all creation. Not only is she one of the primordial deities of the universe, she is also one of the most ...

That summer, the novelist William Golding, a friend, suggested the name Gaia, after the Greek goddess of the Earth. Mr. Golding ... independence to his mother, an amateur actress, secretary ...

Gaia is the Greek goddess of the Earth. Lovelock did not mind being an outsider. He outraged many environmentalists by supporting nuclear energy, saying it was the only way to stop global warming.

In formulating the Gaia hypothesis, Lovelock took inspiration from ancient Greek mythology. Gaia, the Greek goddess of Earth, was worshipped as the mother of all creation. In a chapter of the 1988 ...