Magic of the Ages

Gaia (Goddess)

Pronounced gah-yah

Great Mother Goddess of the Earth, of birth, life, death and rebirth.

In her aspect of Goddess of birth and life, she is represented usually with animal characteristics, as a sow, a she-bear, a she-hedgehog.In the most ancient representations of the Goddess, dating from paleo-and neolithic, the Goddess is never represented with a face. She either has no face at all, or she wears a mask with animal charactertistics.

She is also considered the Bird Goddess: in the life-bringing aspect, the stork appears. In her death aspect she is represented by a predatory bird (milvus milvus) also named "gaia", from the falconiides family, a species of hawk.

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