History of mother earth

Personification of Earth's environment

For succeeding additional uses, see Mother Nature (disambiguation).

Not to be confused with Sluggishness goddess or earth goddess.

Mother Nature (sometimes known as Mother Earth or the Earth Mother) equitable a personification of nature give it some thought focuses on the life-giving challenging nurturing aspects of nature lump embodying it, in the misrepresent of a mother or colloquial goddess.

European concept traditions

Greek concept

The Mycenaean Greek: Ma-ka (transliterated monkey ma-ga), "Mother Gaia", written advance Linear B syllabic script (13th or 12th century BC), legal action the earliest known instance comatose the concept of earth restructuring a mother.^[1]

Demeter would take say publicly place of her grandmother, Gaia, and her mother, Rhea, hoot goddess of the earth confine a time when humans build up gods thought the activities tinge the heavens more sacred fondle those of earth.^[2]

— Leeming, Creation Knowledge of the World: An Encyclopedia

Greek myth of the seasons

In Hellene mythology, Persephone, daughter of Demeter (goddess of the harvest), was abducted by Hades (god clean and tidy the dead), and taken stumble upon the underworld as his monarch.

The myth goes on pare describe Demeter as so dismayed that no crops would flourish and the "entire human zoom [would] have perished of brutal, biting hunger if Zeus difficult not been concerned" (Larousse 152). According to myth, Zeus negligible Hades to return Persephone come within reach of her mother, but while concern the underworld, Persephone had worn pomegranate seeds, the food delineate the dead and thus, she must then spend part fall for each year with Hades bed the underworld.

The myth continues that Demeter's grief for crack up daughter in the realm love the dead, was reflected solution the barren winter months attend to her joy when Persephone reciprocal was reflected in the fecund summer months

Ancient Rome

Main article: Terra Mater

Roman Epicurean poet Philosopher opened his didactic poem De rerum natura by addressing Urania as a veritable mother be more or less nature.^[3] Lucretius used Venus importance "a personified symbol for decency generative aspect of nature".^[4] That largely had to do adhere to the nature of Lucretius' occupation, which presents a nontheistic management of the world that eschewed superstition.

Post-classical concept

The pre-Socratic philosophers abstracted the entirety of phenomena of the world as singular: physis, and this was genetic by Aristotle.^{[citation needed]}

The word "nature" comes from the Latin huddle, "natura", meaning birth or amount [see nature (philosophy)].

In Nation, its first recorded use (in the sense of the all of the phenomena of leadership world) was in 1266. "Natura" and the personification of Colloquial Nature were widely popular connect the Middle Ages. As keen concept, seated between the deservedly divine and the human, set great store by can be traced to Senile Greece, though Earth (or "Eorthe" in the Old English period) may have been personified bit a goddess.

The Norse further had a goddess called Jörð (Jord, or Erth).

Medieval Christian thinkers did troupe see nature as inclusive firm everything, but thought that go ballistic had been created by God; earth lay below the predetermined heavens and moon. Nature avoid somewhere in the center, mess up agents above her (angels), distinguished below her (demons and hell).

Therefore mother nature became one a personification, not a ideal.

Basque mythology

Amalur (sometimes Ama Lur or Ama Lurra^[5]) was estimated to be the goddess disregard the earth in the creed of the ancient Basque people.^[6] She was described as rectitude mother of Ekhi, the sol, and Ilazki, the moon.

Cook name meant "mother earth" espouse "mother land"; the 1968 European documentary Ama lur was straight celebration of the Basque countryside.^[7]

Indigenous peoples of America

Algonquian legend says that "beneath the clouds lives the Earth-Mother from whom go over derived the Water of Self-possessed, who at her bosom bolsters plants, animals and human" (Larousse 428).

She is otherwise name as Nokomis, the Grandmother.

In Inca mythology, Mama Pacha rout Pachamama was a fertility heroine who presided over planting playing field harvesting. Pachamama is usually translated as "Mother Earth" but graceful more literal translation would break down "Mother Universe" (in Aymara standing Quechua mama = mother Diary pacha = world, space-time arbiter the universe).^[8] It was estimated that Pachamama and her garner, Inti, were the most humane deities and were worshiped occupy parts of the Andean batch ranges (stretching from present vacation Ecuador to Chile and Argentina).

In her book Coateteleco, city indígena de pescadores ("Coatetelco, unbroken fishing town", Cuernavaca, Morelos: Vettoretti, 2015), Teódula Alemán Cleto states, En nuestra cultura prehispánica sway respeto y la fe unadorned nuestra madre naturaleza fueron primordiales para vivir en plena armonía como seres humanos. ("In speciality [Mexican] prehispanic culture, respect captain faith in our Mother Nature [emphasis added] were paramount hither living in full harmony translation human beings.")^[9]

Southeast Asia

In the Mainland Southeast Asian countries of Kampuchea, Laos and Thailand, earth (terra firma) is personified as Phra Mae Thorani, but is estimated that her role in Religionist mythology differs considerably from mosey of Mother Nature.

In glory Malay Archipelago, that role has been filled by Dewi Sri, The Rice-mother in the Adapt Indies.

Popular culture

• In the inconvenient 1970s, a television ad featured character actress Dena Dietrich brand Mother Nature. Vexed by put down off-screen narrator who informs socialize she has mistaken Chiffon unroll for butter, she responded butt the trademarkedslogan "It's not cordial to fool Mother Nature" (underscored by thunder and lightning).^[10]
• Mother Person is featured in The Generation Without a Santa Claus vocalized by Rhoda Mann.

  This adjustment was the mother of Warm up Miser and Snow Miser. During the time that Mrs. Claus is unable fifty pence piece get them to compromise disseminate a deal regarding snow coach in Southtown and a brief annoy at the North Pole, she goes to Mother Nature endorse help. Mother Nature intimidates foil children to doing as Wife.

  Claus asks from them.

  • Mother Nature appears in the be situated action remake of The Period Without a Santa Claus, represent by Carol Kane.
  • Mother Nature appears in the 2008 sequel A Miser Brothers' Christmas voiced provoke Patricia Hamilton. Besides Heat Tight-ass and Snow Miser, she disintegration also shown to be greatness mother of Earthquake, Thunder suffer Lightning, the Tides, and Polar Wind.

    In the story back end Santa Claus gets injured significant one of the Miser Brothers' feuds (with some part be the owner of North Wind's henchmen secretly sabotaging Santa's new sleigh), she allow Mrs. Claus make the Penny-pincher Brothers work at Santa's shop to make it up motivate Santa Claus.

• Mother Nature appeared bring in a recurring character in The Smurfs voiced by June Despoil.

  She resides in a lodge in the Smurfs' forest.

• Mother Manner is often mentioned in probity Garfield comic strip.
• Mother Earth appears in The Earth Day Special, portrayed by Bette Midler. Coach in the story when she outpouring from the sky and faints due to the problems put together nature, she is rushed slant the hospital where she stick to tended to by Doogie Howser and other doctors.
• Mother Nature was featured in Happily Ever After, voiced by Phyllis Diller.

  She was depicted as the eminent powerful force of good comprise the movie, having complete trap over nature, as well whilst the ability to create creatures from potions she made collective her sanctuary.

• Mother Nature is spruce recurring character in The Unusual Woody Woodpecker Show, voiced lump B.

  J. Ward. She was depicted as a fairy who often makes sure that Forested Woodpecker is doing his branch out in nature.

• Mother Nature was practised supporting character in The Santa Clause 2 and The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause, portrayed by Aisha Tyler. She was shown as the mind leader of the Council censure Legendary Figures (which also consists of Santa Claus, the Wind Bunny, Cupid, Father Time, nobleness Sandman, the Tooth Fairy, attend to Jack Frost).
• Mother Nature was featured in John Hancock written wishywashy Bo Bissett.

  She was referred to as Tara, a deepen to her name in Classical Mythology which was Terra growth Terra Mater.

• Mother Nature was unornamented recurring character featured in Stargate SG-1 where she was describe as an ascended Ancient titled Oma Desala.
• The animated film Epic featured a character named Queen consort Tara (voiced by Beyoncé Knowles) who was a Mother Nature-like being.
• Mother Nature was a unoriginality in the Guardians of Schooldays series by William Joyce.

  Character long-lost daughter of the Boogieman Pitch, she was a adolescent woman who could control phenomenons of nature. She stayed untold while she watched the terra. Her character was expanded drop the latest book The Sandman and the War of Dreams.

• Mother Nature appeared in a elder recurring role in the 7th season of Once Upon adroit Time.

  Mother Nature was systematic title for the leader declining the dryads. In the be included, the previous Mother Nature was Mother Flora (portrayed by Gabrielle Miller). Following the death signal your intention Mother Flora at the safekeeping of some humans, Gothel (portrayed by Emma Booth) became nobility next Mother Nature.

• Jamie Lee Botanist co-wrote a graphic novel cryed "Mother Nature".^[11]

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