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Digital Art / Drawings & Paintings / Illustrations / Conceptual

_{this is my entry for 's contest^^ [link]

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(got this from [link] because i'm no good in descriptionsXP)
Gaia or Gaea, known as Earth or Mother Earth (the Greek common noun for "land" is ge or ga). She was an early earth goddess and it is written that Gaia was born from Chaos, the great void of emptiness within the universe, and with her came Eros. She gave birth to Pontus (the Sea) and Uranus (the Sky). This was achieved parthenogenetically (without male intervention). Other versions say that Gaia had as siblings Tartarus (the lowest part of the earth, below Hades itself) and Eros, and without a mate, gave birth to Uranus (Sky), Ourea (Mountains) and Pontus (Sea).
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thanks btw to my online friends today especially to~Reiu999 for helping me with the titleXD...i wasn't aware what goddess i was drawing and thank goodness my drawing looks like gaia*w*

thanks for viewing and hope you like it^w^!

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~befearless247 Oct 14, 2011 Student Writer

this is just beautiful!

~Benthos1 Oct 3, 2011 Hobbyist Filmographer

The Eros you speak of is named Phanes, he was also known as Elder Eros, not to be confused with Eros/Cupid, son of Aphrodite and Aries.
The Orphics equated Phanes with the Elder Eros (Sexual Desire) of Hesiod's Theogony, who emerged at the beginning of time alongside Khaos (Air) and Gaia (Earth). Phanes also incorporated aspects of other primordial beings described by various ancient writers including Thesis, Phusis, Ophion, Khronos and Ananke. Phanes also appears in myth in the guise of Metis (i.e. Thetis, Thesis, creation), the goddess devoured by Zeus, and Tethys, the nurse of all. However these two divinities in the majority of Greek literature remain far-removed from the concept of creator-gods.

Phanes was portrayed as a beautiful golden-winged deity wrapped in a serpent's coils. The poets describe him as an incorporeal being invisible even through the eyes of the gods. His name means "bring to light" or "make appear" from the Greek verbs phanaô and phainô.