Golden Girdle of Gaea

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Golden Girdle of Gaea
Diana discovers the long lost Golden Girdle of Gaea; art by Chris Marrinan and George Pérez.
Publication information
PublisherDC Comics
First appearanceAll Star Comics #8 (December 1941)
Created byWilliam Moulton Marston
In story information
TypeMystic item/artifact
Element of stories featuringWonder Woman

The Golden Girdle of Gaea is a

Twelve Labors
.

Comic book history

Originally when the

Gaea. The belts provided the two queens with enhanced strength and heightened their other abilities.[2]

Eventually the demi-god

Bana-Mighdall
. Together they retrieved Hippolyta's stolen belt and kept it as an heirloom.

Thousands of years later when Wonder Woman discovered this lost tribe of Amazons, she battled one of their warriors named Shim'Tar. Shim'Tar used the power of the Girdle of Gaea to defeat Diana. She would have been successful had the Olympian god Hermes not come to Diana's aid. After Shim'Tar was defeated Diana took the belt and returned it to her mother Hippolyta.

Similarly, the belt given to Hippolyta by Antiope was taken from Hippolyta by the goddess Hestia and transformed into Wonder Woman's Lasso of Truth.

See also

References

  1. National Research Council
    , The Polygraph and Lie Detection, National Academies Press, 2003, p. 295.
  2. .