Terra’s Family Tree

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Family

• Caelus(spouse),Ops(child),Saturn(child)— Marriage

  Caelus and Terra, Sky and Earth joined in the first marriage, bore the elder gods — Saturn, Ops, Coeus, Phoebe, Hyperion, Theia, and their kin — until Saturn castrated his father and seized dominion over the cosmos.

Equivalent to

• Gaia(Greek)

  Terra is the Roman counterpart of Gaia, the primordial earth goddess. Roman worship of Terra Mater preserved her role as the ancestral mother of all living things.