"Gaia" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Storm-wind. Indeed, when the fetichistic tendency led the Greek again to personify the powers of nature, he had recourse to new names formed from his own language. Thus, beside Apollo we have Helios; Selene beside Artemis and Persephone; Eos beside Athene; Gaia beside Demeter. As a further consequence of this decomposition and new development of the old Aryan mythology, we find, as might be expected, that the Homeric poems are not always consistent in their use of their mythic materials. Thus, Paris, the night-demon, is—to ...
— Myths and Myth-Makers - Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology • John Fiske
... her whispered message: "Ask, Lord, and I answer thee." Strung to his task: "Tell me now all," he said, "from that far day Whenas embracing thee, I stood to pray, And poured forth wine unto the thirsty earth To Zeus and to Poseidon, in whose girth Lie sea and land; to Gaia next, their spouse, And next to Here, mistress of my house, Traitress, and thine, for grace upon my faring: For thou wert by to hear me, false arm bearing Upon my shoulder, glowing, lying cheek Next unto mine. Ay, and thou prayedst, with meek Fair seeming, prosperous send-off and return. ...
— Helen Redeemed and Other Poems • Maurice Hewlett
... Tantalon eiseidon, chalep alge echonta, Estaot en limnae hae de proseplaze geneio. Steuto de dipsaon, pieein d ouk eichen elesthai. Ossaki gar kupsei ho geron pieein meneainon, Tossach hudor apolesket anabrochen. amphi de possi Gaia melaina phaneske katazaenaske de daimon, Dendrea d hupsipeteala katakoeathen chee kaopon Onchnai, kai roiai, kai maeleai aglaokarpoi, Sukai te glukeoai, kai elaiai taelethoosai. Ton opot ithusei o geoon epi cheosi masasthai, Tasd anemos ...
— The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, In Nine Volumes - Volume the Third: The Rambler, Vol. II • Samuel Johnson
... And for rebuke to this untoward age?" "Either thy words," said he, "deceive; or else Are meant to try me; that thou, speaking Tuscan, Appear'st not to have heard of good Gherado; The sole addition that, by which I know him; Unless I borrow'd from his daughter Gaia Another name to grace him. God be with you. I bear you company no more. Behold The dawn with white ray glimm'ring through the mist. I must away—the angel comes—ere he Appear." He said, and ...
— The Divine Comedy • Dante
... Chaos. Next was broad-bosomed Earth, or Gaia. Then was Tartarus, dark and dim, below the earth. Next appears Eros, or Love, most beautiful among the Immortals. From Chaos came Erebus and black Night, and then sprang forth Ether and Day, children of Erebus and Night. Then Earth brought forth the starry Heaven, Uranos, like to herself ...
— Ten Great Religions - An Essay in Comparative Theology • James Freeman Clarke |
