Gaia
Gæa - Ancient Earth-mother goddess; mother and spouse of Uranus; also mother of the Titans, the Furies and the Cyclopes. Under the variant spelling Gaia, a name for the biosphere; as in Lovelock’s ‘Gaia Hypothesis.’ Has been proposed as a name for the planet Earth; known figuratively as ‘Our Lady Gæa.’ Also:Gea. Hence: Gæan, Gean.1994 Ott Ayahuasca Analogues, 88. Planet Earth, Our Lady Gæa, is suffering mightily the consequences of our materialistic world-view, especially the Judæo-Christian tendency to see humankind as a special creation, apart from all other Gæan life-forms, and as enjoined, moreover, to subdue and dominate all other countries.1995 Ott The Age of Entheogens, 40. We thus have a satisfying family of words, based on the name of the Greek earth-goddess Gæa for our planet; we as Gæn creatures; pangæan as an adjective to replace the shopworn and provincial ‘universal’ for a worldwide phenomenon; Palæoæa and Neogæa to describe what we are now obliged to call the Old and New Worlds, with the adjectives palæogæan and neogæan.
Gaia - Variant of Gæa. This spelling should be avoided, as it is usually mispronounced in English as guy-ah [as opposed to the proper pronounciation, gay-uh]. Moreover, Gæa or jee-uh, gives us the sound of the common prefix, e.g. geology.
- Source:
- The Age of Entheogens & The Angel’s Dictionary
by Jonathan Ott