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* Gaia, the spirit of Earth in the TV series Captain Planet and the Planeteers
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Gaia and spirit
Before immortality when she was a demigod, her name was Alethia ( truth ) and after she helped saving Olympus from the evil schemes of Gaia and Nemesis she was offered immortality through Zeus and the spirit of fortune through Nyx.
* Gaia, spirit in the movie Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
The culture of the Garou nation is centered around venerating various spirits ( every pack, sept, and tribe has its patron spirit or totem ) that can help them in their war against the enemies of Gaia.
Gaia, the spirit of the Earth, is awakened from a long sleep by Hoggish Greedly, who happens to be drilling above her resting chamber.
Gaia ( voiced by Whoopi Goldberg in 1990 – 1993, Margot Kidder in 1993 – 1995 ) is the spirit of the Earth.
* Zarm ( voiced by Sting in 1990 – 1992, David Warner in 1993, Malcolm McDowell in 1994 – 1995 ) – Zarm is the former spirit of the Earth who left Gaia in search of other worlds and ended up laying other populous planets to ruin lacking Gaia to balance out his methods.
Housed below the Planet's surface, the is considered the lifeblood and the very spirit of Gaia.
The Lifestream is also similar to the Gaia Theory depicted in Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, in which all living things ( plants, animals, and human beings ) are bestowed energy by the spirit of the Planet prior to birth.
The primary difference in the conflict is that Werewolves in Forsaken are not set to defend the planetary ecosystem and its spirit ( Gaia ) from the depredations of human civilization and technology.
Gaia and Earth
His arrival must have occurred during the " dark ages " that followed the destruction of the Mycenaean civilization, and his conflict with Gaia ( Mother Earth ) was represented by the legend of his slaying her daughter the serpent Python.
The name Delphoi comes from the same root as δελφύς delphys, " womb " and may indicate archaic veneration of Gaia, Grandmother Earth, and the Earth Goddess at the site.
The Gaia hypothesis states that there is an emergent feedback loop generated by the metabolism of living organisms that maintains the temperature of the Earth and atmospheric conditions within a narrow self-regulating range of tolerance.
* Sustainability movement which started in the 1980s focused on Gaia theory, value of Earth and other interrelations between human sciences and human responsibilities.
Gaia philosophy ( named after Gaia, Greek goddess of the Earth ) is a broadly inclusive term for related concepts that living organisms on a planet will affect the nature of their environment in order to make the environment more suitable for life.
Building to some degree on his observations and artifacts, e. g. the Dymaxion map of the Earth he created, others began to ask if there was a way to make the Gaia theory scientifically sound.
The most extreme form of Gaia theory is that the entire Earth is a single unified organism ; in this view the Earth's biosphere is consciously manipulating the climate in order to make conditions more conducive to life.
The more speculative versions of Gaia, including versions in which it is believed that the Earth is actually conscious, sentient, and highly intelligent, are usually considered outside the bounds of what is usually considered science.
Buckminster Fuller has been credited as the first to incorporate scientific ideas into a Gaia theory, which he did with his Dymaxion map of the Earth.
Such views began to influence the Green Parties, Greenpeace, and a few more radical wings of the environmental movement such as the Gaia Liberation Front and the Earth Liberation Front.
Rosemary Radford Ruether the American feminist scholar and theologian wrote a book called " Gaia and God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing ".
More speculative versions of Gaia, including all versions in which it is held that the Earth is actually conscious, are currently held to be outside the bounds of science, and are not supported by either Lovelock or Margulis.
At least one work of fiction, the film Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, uses Gaia philosophy as a central point to the plot, and may arguably represent a fictional parallel to Sir James Lovelock in the character of Dr. Cid, who is met with skepticism from the scientific and social community when he promotes the idea of a " living Earth ".
* Peter Bunyard ( 1996 ), Gaia in Action: Science of the Living Earth
First formulated by Lovelock during the 1960s as a result of work for NASA concerned with detecting life on Mars, the Gaia hypothesis proposes that living and non-living parts of the Earth form a complex interacting system that can be thought of as a single organism.
In Greek mythology, Nereus ( Νηρεύς ) was the eldest son of Pontus ( the Sea ) and Gaia ( the Earth ), a Titan who with Doris fathered the Nereids, with whom Nereus lived in the Aegean Sea.
In Wicca, ( especially Dianic Wicca ) the concept of an Earth or Mother Goddess, similar to the Greek Gaia, is emphasized.
Such views have also led many pagans to revere the planet Earth as Mother Earth, who is often referred to as Gaia after the ancient Greek goddess of the Earth.
Then came Gaia ( Earth ), Tartarus ( the cave-like space under the earth ; the later-born Erebus is the darkness in this space ), and Eros ( Sexual Desire-the urge to reproduce, not the emotion of love as is the common misconception ).
Then came Gaia ( Earth ), the more orderly and safe foundation that would serve as a home for the gods and mortals, and Tartarus, in the depths of the Earth, and Eros, the fairest among the deathless gods.
Gaia and TV
* Gaia, character in the TV series Spartacus: Gods of the Arena
* Gaia ( character of Rome ), character in the TV series Rome
* 1996 – I misteri di Cascina Vianello – TV series – Gaia – 1 episode: " Un matrimonio e un funerale " ( 1. 01 )
Produced by Tsuburaya Productions and Mainichi Broadcasting System ( MBS TV ), Ultraman Gaia was aired on JNN TV stations ( TBS, CBC, MBS, etc.
Gaia and series
Projects under preparation include: LISA Pathfinder, ADM-Aeolus, SWARM, the Sentinel series and Gaia.
On 8 May 2012, he appeared on the Radio Four series " The Life Scientific ", talking to Jim al-Khalili about the Gaia hypothesis.
The book Nemesis, predating the Foundation and Robot series, hints at the motives and origins of Gaia.
* Gaia — The first planet of the star Betelgeuse, inhabited by the Syreen people in the Star Control computer game series.
It is eventually discovered that the bacterial life on Erythro forms a collective organism that possesses a form of consciousness and telepathy ( a concept similar to the Gaia of Asimov's Foundation series ).
She defined Gaia as " the series of interacting ecosystems that compose a single huge ecosystem at the Earth's surface.
* Gaia ( Foundation universe ), planet in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series
* Gaia Moore, the heroine of the Fearless novel series by Francine Pascal
* Ultraman Gaia, a character in the 1999 tokusatsu series of the same name
* In the fourth book in the series, Foundation's Edge, Asimov writes that the Mule had been a rogue member of the planet / society Gaia.
Her voice work includes also the character of " Management " in Carnivàle, and the titan Gaia, who serves as the Narrator in the God of War series of video games.
In the beginning of the series, Gaia assembles a modern-day team of " Planeteers " from several nations.
Gaia is similar to that of the world of Final Fantasy VI insofar as it is a world with considerably more advanced technology than the first five games in the Final Fantasy series.
She has had recurring roles as Grace Valentine in The CW's Valentine, as Helena G. Wells in SyFy's Warehouse 13 and as Gaia in the Starz series Spartacus: Gods of the Arena.
Sequels to the original series are: Ultraseven ( 1967, TBS ), The Return of Ultraman ( 1971, TBS ), Ultraman Ace ( 1972, TBS ), Ultraman Taro ( 1973, TBS ), Ultraman Leo ( 1974, TBS ), Ultraman 80 ( 1980, TBS ), Ultraman Tiga ( 1996, MBS ), Ultraman Dyna ( 1997, MBS ), Ultraman Gaia ( 1998, MBS ), and Ultraman Cosmos ( 2001, MBS ).
The protagonist of the series is Gaia Moore, a seventeen year old girl with a tragic past who is incapable of feeling fear.
He never explained his reasoning to Gaia ( although Gaia eventually found out years later and forgave him ), and as a result Gaia, as a child and throughout most of the series as a young adult, was given the impression that her father didn't care about her or her dead mother.
In the next few years ( up to the start of the book series ) Gaia lived in several foster homes and frequently moved around the country from family to family.
These terrible childhood experiences haunted Gaia throughout the first half of the book series and left her bitter and anguished.
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