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This is a list of earth deities. 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 .
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
Earth gods (8 C, 37 P) M. Mountain deities (3 C, 1 P) U. Underworld deities (2 C, 10 P) Pages in category "Earth deities" The following 10 pages are in this category ...
This category covers gods of the Earth, and also of earthquakes. Subcategories. This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total. C. Cronus (2 C, 13 P) H.
At Aegai there was a very old image of the earth-goddess, and the service was in the hands of a virgin woman. The serpent represented the earth deity and was related to the chthonic oracular cult. This is evident at Delphi. Traditionally the oracle belonged originally to Poseidon and Ge and the serpent Python represents the earth spirit.
Tellus is the goddess, whose name can be substituted (ponimus ... pro) for her functional sphere the earth, just as the name Vulcanus is used for fire, Ceres for produce, and Liber for wine. [11]: 1.171 Tellus thus refers to the guardian deity of Earth and by extension the globe itself. [12]
Earth-centered religion or nature worship is a system of religion based on the veneration of natural phenomena. [1] It covers any religion that worships the earth, nature, or fertility deity, such as the various forms of goddess worship or matriarchal religion.
The Chinese Earth goddess Hou Tu [6] is similar to Gaia, the Greek goddess personifying the Earth. Bhumi Devi is the goddess of Earth in Hinduism, [7] influenced by Graha. The Tuluva people of Tulunadu in Southern India celebrate a Three Day "Earth Day" called Keddaso. This festival comes in usually on 10th,12th,13 February every Calendar year ...