GAIA
Gaia (Γαῖα) · Roman Terra
primordialthe earth · motherhood · prophecy · oaths
Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Gaia.
Gaea
Anselm Feuerbach, 1875
A ceiling painting by the German classicist Anselm Feuerbach at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. It presents Gaia, the primordial mother of the earth, as a serene figure enthroned in the heavens, part of the decorative program Feuerbach created for the academy in his final years.
Tellus in the Aion Mosaic
Unknown (Roman), c. 250 AD
A Roman floor mosaic showing Aion, god of eternal time, standing within the ring of the zodiac, while the earth mother Tellus — the Roman counterpart of Gaia — reclines beside him with children often interpreted as the four seasons. Excavated at Sentinum in Italy, the mosaic is now in the Glyptothek in Munich.