Gaia

Mother Goddess, Goddess of Nature, Goddess of the Oerth

Gaia is a goddess with no formal temples although the Druidic faith is often seen as worshipping her. She is, however, indirectly revered by many religions as a Mother Goddess, a being that even the Gods defer to. For this reason druids are respected by many religions and most good and neutral clerics and even quite a few evil clerics are keen to avoid angering her. Some religions see her as the embodiment of Oerth itself, while others see her as the ultimate creator god. As a result she is never seen as having an avatar as in a sense the Oerth (or all of creation) is her embodiment.

In the 'Olympian' pantheon Gaia is the mother of the Gods (Zeus, Ares, Hera etc.) which is a more direct relationship than in the classical non-Oerth Olympian mythology. She is also somehow recognised by clerics of the Olympian pantheon as the mother of all gods of all pantheons. She is not seen as being related to the shadowy 'Elder Gods', however, who are seen as having no presence on Oerth now. Interestingly her spouse who is sometimes not named and sometimes referred to as Uranus is in some accounts an 'Elder God', a God of the Heavens.

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