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An Earth god or Earth goddess is a deification of the Earth associated with a figure with chthonic or terrestrial attributes. There are many different Earth goddesses and gods in many different cultures mythology. However, Earth is usually portrayed as a goddess. Earth goddesses are often associated with the chthonic deities of the underworld. [1]
Geb (Ancient Egyptian: gbb, Egyptological pronunciation: Gebeb), also known as Ceb (/ ˈ s ɛ b /, / ˈ k ɛ b /), [a] was the Egyptian god of the Earth [1] and a mythological member of the Ennead of Heliopolis. He could also be considered a father of snakes.
In ancient Roman religion and mythology, Tellus Mater or Terra Mater [a] ("Mother Earth") is the personification of the Earth.Although Tellus and Terra are hardly distinguishable during the Imperial era, [1] Tellus was the name of the original earth goddess in the religious practices of the Republic or earlier.
Ops, goddess of fertility and the earth; Pilumnus, nature god who ensured children grew properly and stayed healthy; Pomona, goddess of fruit trees, gardens and orchards; Silvanus, tutelary spirit or deity of woods and fields and protector of forests; Terra, primeval goddess personifying the earth; equivalent to the Greek goddess Gaia
This category covers gods of the Earth, and also of earthquakes. Subcategories. This category has the following 8 subcategories, out of 8 total. C. Cronus (2 C, 13 P) E.
According to Puranas, the Earth got the epithet after being tamed in the form of a cow by the king Prithu, an incarnation of god Vishnu. [2] Prithvi is the most frequent Vedic word for both the earth and the Earth-goddess; [4] [5] and the poetic formula kṣā́m ... pṛthivī́m ('broad earth').
In antiquity, different explanations were already proffered for the first element of her name. It is possible that Da (Δᾶ), [14] a word which corresponds to Gē (Γῆ) in Attic, is the Doric form of De (Δῆ), "earth", the old name of the chthonic earth-goddess, and that Demeter is "Mother-Earth". [15]
An account tells he is a DEUS TERRAE ('earth god'), [256] while in other he is "a lord or god of earth who was buried in the earth" by the Prussians. [257] Unclassified Indo-European languages: Phrygian: the epithet ΓΔΑΝ ΜΑ (Gdan Ma), taken to mean 'Earth Mother', [258] or a loan from Anatolian languages.