Why Gaia is The Mother of Creation | Fate & Fabled
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- Imagine being the mother to every single living thing. What would you do if one of your children threatened the safety of the others? Would you kill or imprison your progeny to save the world? Gaia would know. As Greek mythology’s original Mother Earth, with the unique ability to create life from nothing, it was often Gaia’s burden to save the world from the cruelty of her immortal children.
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Hosted by Dr. Moiya McTier & Dr. Emily Zarka, FATE & FABLED explores the stories and characters of mythologies from all around the world - why they came to be and how they impact us still today.
Host / Writer: Moiya McTier, PhD
Director: David Schulte
Executive Producer: Amanda Fox
Producer: Thomas Fernandes
Editor / Animator: Steven Simone
Assistant Editor: Jordyn Buckland
Illustrator: Sophie Calhoun
Script Editors: Emily Zarka, PhD & Moiya McTier, PhD
Fact Checker: Yvonne McGreevy
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Music: APM Music
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Director of Programming (PBS): Gabrielle Ewing
Assistant Director of Programming (PBS): John Campbell
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This might be a ridiculous idea, but, I couldn't help but think, maybe the reason why Gaia doesn't have an ending in the mythology is because the Earth hasn't ended yet.
Excellent thought!
Ehhh humanity is working hard to give her story a tidy conclusion 😂
That also would make sense to me by the fact that the Greek term for Gaia and the other deities like her wasn't Theos, if memory serves. An alternate translation that I've seen is Primordial, and rather than ruling the Earth, as Zeus ruled the sky and Olympus or Hades ruled the underworld that shared his name, she was a personification of the Earth.
@@auroraourania7161 I’ve read or seen that as well.
The Mother is Alive and Well
I remember a lecture I had when we're in High School. Our teacher said that the story of Gaia and her children reflects how we, as humans, treat the earth. We think we're destroying it but we're actually helping her create something that could destroy us in the end.
Gaia's Revenge.
True...the earth looks at us and shakes her head in earthquakes.
@@Azulakayes this sounds so cheesy, but a very good quote
That is pretty-spot on to describe what we are currently doing to, and experiencing from, the earth.
*Mark Walberg stares at plants in horror*
Being the mother of one creature is already such a chore. Imagine this
nightmare daycare
No wonder the Greek Pantheon’s so messed up.
Hard Pass
@@taylorfusher2997 they believed they lived in the past
Imagine having to listen to them all at once. Poor Mother Gaia.🎉🎉
I think it's sweet that the host has a personal connection to gaia and her PhD.
There’s something interesting in that she was seen as a mother to all things, and ended up basically giving away every part of her self to her kids. If we do ever find some fragment of an old text that gives us an end to her myth, I hope she gets to rest
The original "Giving Tree." I hate that story.
4:14 It's also said that Zeus was raised by a Goat named "Amalthea", who provided him with milk, and would play with him, one day Zeus got carried away & accidentally broke off one of her Horns, and Amalthea became the world's first Unicorn, and Zeus used her horn to create the world's first Cornucopia.
Zeus also placed Amalthea into the sky as a the constellation Capella as a an honor and thanks for taking care of Zeus when he was an infant.
Aren't there more than 3 protogenoi? There is Erebus (darkness) and Nyx (night) for instance, whose children were Aether (brightness) and Hemera (day). Nyx also had many children on her own, including Death, Pain, Sleep, Dreams and Friendship.
yep
Don't forget Nemesis!
There're are plenty of version and some narrates that even among primordial gods, there are some who came into being earlier than the rest. It's usually starts with Chaos then then so on and so forth. I guess the more popular one is = Chaos -> Gaia, Eros, and Tartarus
She just said that the three protogenos were the most ancient according to the Theogony (Eros, Gaia and Tartarus). Ouranos, Pontos and the Ourea were primordials as well, beside Nyx, Erebus, Aether and Hemera that you mentioned. There was also others like Phanes, the god of creation and the one that bringed order from Caos (he is the indirect father of the primordials according to the orphics religions, because from his act of Creation he separated the mixed elements into the middle of emptiness, because Chaos is the empty, thus allowing the Primordials to exist).
@@calladricosplays Nemesis was not a primordial. She, and Death, Pain, Sleep, Dreams and Friendship that the o.p mentioned are Demons, not demons in a evil way. Demons mean "spirits", because they are just the living spirits of abstracts concepts. A lot of people think they were primordials but they were not. Primordials are the fundamental elements of the universe, Demons are every type of abstrac concept you can think off.
"For Knowledge within you is without fear. It is not corrupted by the world. It represents the eternal part of you that is going to live beyond this world. But it is concerned that you may fulfill your destiny here, and to that end it works ceaselessly on your behalf, trying to orient you through many different means to follow a true direction, to stick with that direction and not to lose heart or be pulled off track by beauty, wealth and charm or by despair and anguish."
A quote from *_The Separation_* - a teaching from _The New Message from God_
Thanks a lot
Very cool video. I hate to say it, but I think that a huge reason we've seen an increased awareness of Gaia in the past few decades is because of Captain Planet. Even in that, she was giving power to children, and again, to imprison doers of evil (although cartoon bad guys never STAY imprisoned). It was very interesting to consider the possibility that she's a holdover from Neolithic times, which honestly makes sense since she's portrayed as one of the original gods from the dawn of time.
"Mother is the name of God in the mouths of little children."
(probably mangling the quote from the Crow)
Always thought Gaia just - went to sleep after a while in the myths. It says something about how I learned those myths, I guess.
I wonder if we might take a look at "primal" gods at some later point? We've seen a bit of comparative stuff in this series before, which I always enjoy. Be interesting to explore what ideas, what "gods," are the most prevalent - the most basic concepts that maybe every human culture has cherished. Assuming there even is one!
Eric Draven was, himself, quoting William Makepeace Thackeray.
"Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children".
@@RictusHolloweye Today I learned!! That's actually really cool!
"Mother is God in the eyes of a child"
Sybil Bennet Silent Hill
I think you could boil it down to mother, father, sky, and ground. Even going back to prehistoric times, there are statuettes of mother figures and paintings of strong male figures.
I think there is a danger in just saying "This goddess isn't talked about because the patriarchy". Remember that Greece wasn't one single monoculture, but rather a collection of city states with their own religions and histories, united by a common language.
The Hecatoncheires are probably among the top 5 most horrific monsters created by any culture anywhere in the world, especially the bit about them having 50 heads. Seriously.
When you're talking about her "missing from the myths," I become very curious about our sources for her. Like, who wrote the stories we're reading? When were they present in the oral tradition? How did the people telling the myths see her? Was she a model for motherhood for the people who told these legends?
i loved how gaia was used in creating the power rings for captain planet, i would love to see her get a movie as well as a live version of captain planet. We need more gaia in everything
There's also the question of what myths SURVIVED to this day. And the greeks tended to find Cthonic gods um... Scary as balls.
Thank you for the epithet, Anesidora the Giver of Gifts. I must've glossed over that epithet when studying Gaia and looking for clues to match up to Yavanna the Giver of Gifts from Lord of the Rings Lore. :)
It seems to me that Gaia's story was later conflated into the Motherhood aspect of Hera and Demeter. For example, often Hera's primary role is to attempt to keep Zeus in check, usually ineffectively and using what we would consider extremely questionable methods. Demeter's role in promoting the fertility of crops and livestock, in which her fickleness and inattention is the cause of more strife than her blessing is the cause of joy, also appears as a poor reflection of a true Earth goddess like Gaia.
It reflects a cultural shift toward Male dominance and the reduction of the acceptable Divine Feminine to no more than an appendage to the dominant Zeus.
Hestia, Artemis, and Athena were all supposedly virginal. To me, this smacks of appropriation of earlier goddesses while neutering them as Feminine in order to keep an aspect that males of the time felt comfortable worshipping. The only other primary Olympian who is Feminine AND fertile is Aphrodite, whose worship was specifically limited to matters of lust and procreation.
Yes, Artemis is also representative of fertility in her worship, but not her own fertility. And the later introduction of Dionysus to supplant much of Hestia's prominence only reinforces my opinion on this.
I'm not so sure about Hera, but I definitely think that Gaia and Demeter were once the same goddess. My reasons are mostly based on the Proto-Indo European earth goddess Dʰéǵʰōm, who was often called Dʰéǵʰōm MATER which would have been pronounced a lot like Demeter. This is extrapolated from the more commonly accepted idea that Zeus = Dyeus (pater) = Jupiter, but the Gaia/Demeter theory is still being debated by scholars, so for now, this is just a hypothesis
Now looking at it, the Greek myth surrounding Chaos sounds a lot like the Big Bang
Thank you, Dr McTier for this wonderfully detailed video. Stories/legends/mythology are very important and I appreciate the fact that you guys are sharing this with the world. This video was well put together. I was really drawn in to this amazing tell. I remember when I was a kid reading the Greek myths in grade school. In high school, I enjoyed the Edith Hamilton mythology. This was a long time ago but for the life of me, I can't remember the story of Gaia. Thanks again for not only sharing but enlightening.
Fantastic episode! The spin of fate in Greek mythology is so compelling.
I find it interesting that both Eros and Aphrodite, gods of love and... copulation would be born without the "traditional" means.
You gotta love media’s various interpretations of the mother goddess.
Percy Jackson: Giant Dirt Lady.
God of War: Giant Dirt Lady.
Sonic: Lovecraftian Snake Cyclops Kaiju and an ice cream loving Chihuahua Fairy.
I did some art and comics where I depicted her as a dinosaur XD
Thanks for another great story, Moiya.
I've decided to name my daughter Gaia. It's fascinating - I had a dream about this name and woke up with the strong feeling that it was the perfect name for my baby girl. After that, I started noticing the name Gaia everywhere. It's almost as if my baby chose her own name.
as always, wonderful and also - lovely illustrations, well done. thx.
Gaia: you know who’s looking fine tonight? Ouranos
Tartarus: He is your *child*
Gaia: what, he’s a great kisser
No she made her own husband
This video was delightful, thank you!
In the Inca mythology the Earth Mother is called Pachamama and she also has the power to create and sustain life on earth.
Great to see Dr. McTier in another video!
Great presentation!
Gaia is such an important yet enigmatic figure.
James Lovelock, the environmentalist that came up with the Gaia hypothesis died (aged 102) in July this year
I first learned of Gaia from Captain Planet😂. Whoopi Goldberg voiced her for awhile but her character just hung out on an island and had to be saved a lot. 😢
"Our world is in peril. Gaia, the spirit of the Earth, can no longer stand the terrible destruction plaguing our planet. She gives five magic rings to five special young people."
Five special rings? That sounds like a Lord of the Rings reference. I wonder what this means...@@sunny_muffins
@@sunny_muffinsThe five fingers are serpent. Thumb is Gaia pointer finger is Jupiter middle finger is Saturn ring finger is Apollo pinky is mercury Hermes together create the ring of the magi. Happy Apocalypse everyone!!!
I love these fate & fabled vids, hopefully for a future vid, you guys talk about Kali, the goddess of destruction but also the modernized symbol for feminine rage and justice. Heck, Bloodywood had a dancer dressed as her for a their "Dana Dan" music video which does talk about sexual violence & the rage/need for justice that comes as a result.
Wow! This one was really great!! I will just say it had everything...
To be fair, the primordial generation of gods in general get little attention in Greek myth outside of creation (with the exception of Eros).
Bring It On, I've literally opened myself up to everything, heard what you had to say, now I've sent my rebuttal, by which outclasses everything you've done. Either compensate me for my time in promoting the business of life you are in, or create a better world, should be a win win if you choose right, and idc if you choose the other, because i'm set up for multiple occurrences, and am not disheartened by your choices, but will hold you at this in court.
I love these videos! It’s so cool that I was able to see this channel before I heard Dr. Moiya on the Newest Olympian Podcast (a Percy Jackson podcast)
You're a great presenter, I'm really enjoying this new (to me) channel!
I adore that little shoulder shimmy at 04:25 for the regurgitory potion! XD
When we got to Gaia the space telescope that gave me a idea. You guys can do a video on the Roman gods that got a plant named after them and how the differ from the Greek counter parts like Venus was more associated with vegetation, a patron of cex workers, and protecting against vice. While Mars wasn’t just the god of war but agriculture as well
Loved this episode, but almost immediately, I thought about Nyx. I'd love to see an episode on her and also the indigenous North American stories of 'Thought- Thinking Woman' and 'Spider Woman'.
Excellent video. Personally very meaningful to me.
I appreciate that the Gaia here is sort of drawn like the Gaia in Captain Planet.
Well Done!!!
Love how she flexed on us with her PHD
This is an awesome video. Save our Beautiful Mother!! 🌎👁️😊
Thanks for the video
Beautiful! 🌾
Let's not forget, she was also responsible for the formation of the Planeteers and the creation of the rings that formed Captain Planet. Go Planet! 😂
Period! 💀💀
In Indian(Hindu/Vedism) mythology #Gaia is known as #Bhoomidevi as in
Earth🌎 Goddess.
💛 all your video's mam 👍.
I am now curious about that PhD work, Dr. McTier! =-D
I’ve heard the theory that we only record myths when they are being changed, or new stories are being added. Because why would you right down what everybody already knows? So it could be the case that Gaia was just so ubiquitous, that nobody saw a need to record her stories.
Why does "CHAOS" look like a less triangular version of Bill Cipher from "Gravity Falls"?
I remember I’m 6th grade Greek mothoigy play I was Gaia and I feel in love I loved playing her and it was so fun Gaia has a good heart and she tried to help her kids aspesil raea
Possibly Gaia is a combination of the greek words for earth and grandmother: Gi + Ya-ya = Gaia
9:28 Indeed, she is the main villain in the second Percy Jackson saga (which was also where I first learned of her)
The Saturday night live skit of Gaia (Mother Earth) was hilarious I recommend you to watch it.
I love Greek myth
Brilliant last line. Also: Gaia's data helped you get your PHD? OMG, what is it about? I don't need sleep, I need answers!
So nice 😮
Wait, so, how did Kronos manage to confuse a rock for his child?
🤷♀️
He ain’t too bright
When you've got the immense size - and jaw strength - of a god-like titan, maybe it doesn't feel like there's much difference between flesh and stone.
Alternatively, perhaps he was just so huge that he swallowed everything whole?
He swallowed them whole without chewing.
@@ecurewitz felt 💀
I met Mother Gaia while on mushrooms, snakes lead me to her (an animal commonly assocated with her) I saw her as the most beautiful women I'd ever seen, she was a beautiful black woman who turned into all things mostly a lion and other animals. There was a heavy focus on her mouth and how she spoke like a snake. She was surrounded by all living beings and nature who were singing a song I didn't understand all the words of I believe it was different names for her over n over the different names then the name I understood Mother Gaia. She spoke again a word I don't understand into my leg I believe it was healing. The whole time since the beginning of this mushroom trip my legs are SHAKING. That was all she said this word into my leg over and over and into my whole body. I believe Mother Gaia is a very very Ancient Goddess/being. How she looked to me reminded me of Mama Wata and I wonder if there's a correlation between the two. Also the snakes that lead me to her I believe were corn snakes which are prominent in Native American traditions I believe. It's interesting how interconnected everything is and how traditions from all over the word come together. She was the earth herself and I was honoured that she would gift ME of all people healing. I praise the earth when I can, kiss the ground and cry because I want to save this planet but I don't know how and I want to be our mothers child again but I don't know how. I hope we will all return to our Great Mother Gaia one day 💚💚💚
I'm wondering if Gaia can be correlated with Aditi, the Vedic Goddess of Creation, who also gave birth to all the gods (including her own father). I'm working on a video about her for my utube channel, and like Gaia, she seems to have been 'forgotten about' in later times, but she may be the oldest name for God/dess, going back to pre-Vedic/ pre-historic times...
I was first taught that Gaia cursed Cronus with a fate as same as Uranus after Cronus refused to free the Thousand Handed Ones and even trapped more Giants into Tartarus after Uranus was overthrown and exiled. Apparently she did the same to Zeus when he failed to meet his end of the deal to free the children trapped within her and Tartaturus after Cronus was defeated but it only worked partially because Zeus kinda did allow some of the Giants free, but only those he deemed was useful to him. These Giants were tasked with forging Zeus's weapons until Hephaestus came about.
Find out more about the ancient earth goddess of the Germanic peoples. She has many names like Frau Holle, Hell, Perchta... There are also individual finds relating to her, such as "the Venus from Holle Fels", which has been dated to 35,000 to 40,000 years ago.
Lol she's an antagonist in my story. Thanks for the info.
There's Gaia and then there's Medea. Perfect for Storied in October. Yes, Mother Earth has curves!
The ancient myths, even if rewritten, all have much deeper meanings. What Gaia shows us is that we are all interconnected. Gaia is our planet and everything natural (including ourselves) on it. How do we treat our mothers?
I find it interesting that an old Proto Indo-European name for the Earth Mother was Dʰéǵʰōm, or Dʰéǵʰōm Mater... Which sounds oddly similar to Demeter, though scholars still debate whether or not Gaia = Dʰéǵʰōm Mater = Demeter (although it's fairly accepted that Zeus = Dyēus Pater = Jupiter, so I think it's certainly POSSIBLE).
Also, an epithet for Dʰéǵʰōm was Pl̥th₂éwih₂, meaning "Broad one", which seems to have turned into Vedic earth-goddess Prithvi - all these alternative names just make it clear how very OLD these Earth-Mother stories must be, to have been so widely shared, and broadly transformed.
Do the Inuit Mother Of The Sea Sassuma Arnaa
I HAD FORGOT THESE STORIES TIL YOU HAD REMINDED ME OF THEM, THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!GARY BAILEY KING OF DARKNESS
1:45 sounds like the big bang.
wait at 1:26
yeah the Schumann resonance effects our brain states and through it's changes a language can be emulated and dreams are in the same wave length as it's normal state 7.83hz
didn't know the ancients knew about it already
The story of the universe, the entire material creation
All hail Mother Gaia! All hail "Earth" and her mysterious, whimsical nature! (And those curves! Yowzah!)
Please do a video on myths about redheads throughout history
Typhon would be great for a Monstrum episode
CZcams really need a love button
In the beginning, there was Eris Discordia, and she laughed and the world came to be.
Hail Eris
Maybe the fact that Gaia is not mentioned is because she is the earth it makes her eternal while Chronos is representing the field of time.
Please make a video about Rhea, the mother of Zeus.
Happy Halloween
Love love and love is all I have towards her she has been though the most tbh
So proud of our mythology ! 😌🔥🌏
I really like how earthy Hercules the animated series version of Gaia was
Maybe, like Hestia, she was so important no one needed to tell any more myths about her. Until now.
the ad placement is crazy
I think it's that she's not at the top of the pantheon since it's a test, and the Greeks viewed things that had been going on forever as like gods or spirits that greatly influences us that are beyond us. On top of those is the impetuousness Zeus, chaotic but more on potential especially for transcendence (power/transcendence doesn't have any explanation, it's reserved for those who'd do/claim it from the ground) and Hera was all about human life especially birth. Gaia could produce all beings out there but the Greeks knew and mythologized that humans are in shape of the gods that amongst all other beings, (especially of Prometheus) we have the most potential for transcendence since we have the ability to create things of metaphysical level
I always thought that it was not Gaia that gave Zeus the poison for Cronos, but it was Metis, his first wife and mother of Athena.
Do a episode about the jersey devil or the goatman
I love Gaia she’s so cool
@ 7.45
It's *not*
Kuh-thonic
Just
Thonic
"C" is silent
What about Metis?? Wasn't she the one who guided Zeus to defeat Cronus?
Demeter and persephone are much older gods and might have been one god that split possibly even before they were added to greek myth.
Is that a tattoo of the constellation Orion?
Zeus, cronos, oranus. Man’s ideas ruled and before that time ruled, and before that the astrological skies ruled.
Neat.
Chaos was both and neither darkness and light. It is nothing and everything. Having no order. Until it made all the elder gods.
I should have recommended a family planning
- Gaia
I can't help wondering why she got angry when one group of her children beat another group of her children and locked them up. What did she think would happen? 🤯🤗🖖
You kinda have to wonder why all her kids turned out rotten.