Ctonie

THE EARTH, BEFORE THE WEDDING WITH THE FATHER OF ALL GODS, WAS NAMED CTONIE, MEANING "SUBTERRANEAN". 

SHE THEN BECAME KNOWN AS GEA, AFTER DONNING A VEIL OFFERED TO HER BY ZEUS HIMSELF. 

THE VEIL WAS MADE FROM THE EMERGED LANDS AND THE VEGETATION GROWING OVER THEM, SO TO COVER HER ORIGINAL INFERNAL APPEARANCES.

(GIORGIO COLLI, LA SAPIENZA GRECA, VOL. II, PP. 275-6, ADELPHI, 1992)