Gaia

= __Gaia and Anthem__ = By Daphne Pan

[|Etymology of Gaia] T he Greek word "γαῖα" (trans. as //gaia// or //gaea//) is a collateral form of "γῆ" (//gē//, Doric "γά" - //ga// and probably "δᾶ" //da//) meaning Earth, a word of unknown origin.//Gaia// was very early contracted to //ga-// under the suffix //-ia// like //ma-ia// (address to old ladies) and //gra-ia// (old woman). //Aia// is a poetic form of //gaia// meaning earth, land and in some texts probably cognates with Latin "avia" (grandmother). The combining form of //geo-// "γεω-" (//geō-//) is used in ancient Greek and modern international and English words such as geography, geology, geometry, etc.

M ost scholars assert that the Doric form //da// meaning earth is the element of "Δαμάτηρ" (//Da-matēr//, Demeter: "mother earth") and "Ποτειδάν"(//Potei-dan//, Poseidon: "master of the earth") but this is debated. It is possible that //da// is a Doric vocative of "Δάν", //Dan// or "Ζάν", //Zan// (Zeus), who was venerated in Creta as "Zeus Velchanos" (the boy Zeus), the local child of the Minoan Great Mother. In Mycenean Greek //Ma-ka// (trans. as //Ma-ga//: Mother Gaia) contains also the root //ga-//. Other Greek words for earth are "ἄρουρα" (//aroura//), from the Greek verb "ἀρόω" (//aroō//) meaning plough and "χθών" (chthōn), which usually refers to the interior of the soil, from the PIE root //*dhgem-//. [INFORMATION's SOUCE:[|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_(mythology]]

**G aia** from [|__Ancient Greek__] was the __primordial Earth-goddess__ in __ancient Greek religion__. Gaia was the great mother of all : the __heavenly gods__ and __Titans__ were descended from her union with __Uranus__ (the sky), the sea-gods from her union with Pontus (the sea), the __Giants__ from her mating with __Tartarus__ (the hell-pit) and mortal creatures were sprung or born from her earthy flesh.Her equivalent in the Roman pantheon was __Terra__.

__ Anthem __ A nthem was wrote by **Ayn Rand**. It is a fiction talking about a rebirth society in hundred of hundred years in future. In that society, everyone are live in a regular system, People in the society are going to group together in different kind since they were borned and set with different code. They are decided to study in the specific place, do the job that the council decides for them and making the baby in a specific place with someone they don't know. Then when they arrive the age that they don't need to work, they will be sent to a place called Home of Useless.

T here is someone in this society do not born for comply with decided by the others, that is Equality 7-2521. He thinks a lot with his own mind, he studies the knowledge that he was not learned when he was a child in a illegal way. Even though he knew that is a sin of that society, his still wanted to live in his own way. Finally, he leave out the society and go to the place that the people in the society would never decide to explore. There is another person was coming with Equality 7-2521, that is Liberty 5-3000.

**__ About Liberty 5-3000 in __**__ //Anthem// __

S he is the only one who support to Equality. She is a peasant of Home of Peasant in the society, all of her job is planting something and make them grow, and she is going to breed something. From the book we could know she is a beautiful blonde, Equality was in love with her when the first time he saw her. At the beginning of the book, she was a restrained girl, constrain by the rules of the society. She only smiles to Equality a second when the first time they met, then she turn back to Equality for a long while. After few times she met Equality, she was going to talk with him. Few days ago, she became brave and dare. Finally she also broke the constraint and left the society with Equality, live in the place that is magical for them and had a name called Gaia.

**__ Connection __**


 * G aia is the mother of everything on Earth because she created everything in the world, organism, plants and people. She used her Vial of Life (a magical bottle of Gaia in Greek M, there are seeds of all and spring of life in the bottle) to breed the lives of everything on the ground, and make sure they can create the new life by themselves, keep it forever. Liberty is a peasant, also is a woman. In that society. Her job and responsibility is planting plants, and deliver a baby. Both of them were here for breed the live,
 * B oth of them were pregnancy or going to pregnancy, but all of these were not what they want. Some of the children of Gaia were forced to have, they were not born with Gaia’s expect. Liberty is going to pregnancy. As soon as Liberty arrived the age, she would be took to a place called Place of mating. She does not know everything before the time; she just knew she needs to do this because of duty. She even does not like the man that might be having a baby with her, and she would never know who he is.
 * L iberty had a name called Gaia at the end of the book might be they are similar in some way. Might be there is a predicted that Liberty is going to become a person like Gaia, doing a great thing -- built a new life and create their own world, at the place she found with Equality. Might be there is a hint, a hint that Liberty is the miniature or incarnate of Gaia.