Children
Gaia is the personification of the Earth and these are her offspring as related in various myths. Some are related consistently, some are mentioned only in minor variants of myths, and others are related in variants that are considered to reflect a confusion of the subject or association.
- By herself
- Uranus
- Pontus
- Ourea
- With Uranus
- Cyclopes
- Arges
- Brontes
- Steropes
- Hecatonchires
- Briareus
- Cottus
- Gyes
- Titans
- Coeus
- Crius
- Cronus
- Hyperion
- Iapetus
- Mnemosyne
- Oceanus
- Phoebe
- Rhea
- Tethys
- Theia
- Themis
- Other
- Mneme
- Melete
- Aoide
- Gigantes*
- Erinyes*
- Meliae*
- Elder Muses
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- Some said that children marked with a * were born from Uranus' blood when Cronus defeated him.
- With Pontus
- Ceto
- Phorcys
- Eurybia
- Nereus
- Thaumas
- With Poseidon
- Antaeus
- Charybdis[Laistrygones Laistrygon
- With Oceanus
- Kreousa
- Triptolemos
- With Tartarus
- Typhon
- Echidna (more commonly held to be child of Phorcys and Ceto)
- Campe (presumably)
- With Zeus
- Manes
- With Hephaestus
- Erichthonius of Athens
- With Aether
- Uranus (more commonly held to be child of Gaia alone)
- Aergia
- Unknown father or through parthenogenesis
- Pheme
- Cecrops
- Python
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Famous quotes containing the word children:
“In time of war you know much more what children feel than in time of peace, not that children feel more but you have to know more about what they feel. In time of peace what children feel concerns the lives of children as children but in time of war there is a mingling there is not children’s lives and grown up lives there is just lives and so quite naturally you have to know what children feel.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“All parents occasionally have ambivalent feelings toward their children. We love our kids, but there are times when we don’t really like them, or at least we can’t stand what our children are doing. But most of us keep those feelings to ourselves, as if it’s dirty little secret. It doesn’t fit in with our images of what we should do and feel as parents.”
—Lawrence Kutner (20th century)
“In the planning and designing of new communities, housing projects, and urban renewal, the planners both public and private, need to give explicit consideration to the kind of world that is being created for the children who will be growing up in these settings. Particular attention should be given to the opportunities which the environment presents or precludes for involvement of children with persons both older and younger than themselves.”
—Urie Bronfenbrenner (b. 1917)