Gaia (or Ge) was the
great primeval
earth goddess, the first creature to be born from Chaos. The name is simply the Greek for 'earth', which usually appears in the form ge (as in 'geography') but also has the poetic form gaia, used for the name of the
goddess, and occasionally aia. In Doric Greek, ge is
sometimes da, but this does not seem to be the
origin of the name
Demeter.
