Gaia
Limestone (West Virginia)
22" tall
Gaia , also spelled Gaea /ˈdʒiːə/, is the personification of the Earth and one of the Greek primordial deities.
In Greek mythology, Gaia is the ancestral mother—sometimes parthenogenic—of all life. She is the mother of Uranus (the sky), from whose sexual union she bore the Titans (themselves parents of many of the Olympian gods), the Cyclopes, and the Giants; as well as of Pontus (the sea), from whose union she bore the primordial sea gods. Her Roman equivalent is Terra.
In the 1960s, James Lovelock , a British scientist, environmentalist and futurist, proposed the Gaia hypothesis, postulating that the Earth functions as a self-regulating system. In the 2000s, he proposed a method of climate engineering to restore carbon dioxide-consuming algae.
Gaia has been embraced by some in the Yoga community - the practice is based on flow, breathing, and check-ing with oneself...