Terra (mythology)

Terra is the Roman form of Gaia (greek). She is the goddess of the Earth. Her husband is Caelus, an ancient god of the sky (heavens). They are the parents of the Titans & giants.^[1] One day, thousands of years ago, Terra convinced her son, Saturn, to take his father's scythe and chop his father up with it. Saturn did as his mother told him. He scattered Caelus's pieces across the cosmos. When one piece hit the water, it gave birth to Venus, the goddess of love. This, effectively, makes Venus the oldest of all the gods & goddess'.

Terra (mythology) Media

A dedicatory inscription to Terra Mater fulfilling a vow (votum), 1st century CE.
The attributes of the central figure on this panel of the Ara Pacis mark her as an earth and mother goddess, often identified as Tellus.

References

↑ Henry Gibbons Lotspeich, Classical Mythology in the Poetry of Edmund Spenser (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1932), p. 112, via Questia.com^{[dead link]}

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[1] Henry Gibbons Lotspeich, Classical Mythology in the Poetry of Edmund Spenser (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1932), p. 112, via Questia.com^{[dead link]}

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