Wednesday 18 June 2014
Mother Nature
(sometimes known as Mother Earth
or the Earth-Mother) is a common
personification of nature that focuses on the life-giving and nurturing aspects
of nature by embodying it in the form of the mother. Images of women
representing mother earth, and mother nature, are timeless. In prehistoric
times, goddesses were worshipped for their association with fertility, fecundity,
and agricultural bounty. Priestesses held dominion over aspects of Incan, Algonquian,
Assyrian, Babylonian, Slavonic, Germanic, Roman, Greek, Indian, and Iroquoian
religions in the millennia prior to the inception of patriarchal religions. The
believers and leaders of Enlightenment had to separate nature from God. This
led to the feminization of nature, the creation of the word: Mother Nature.
Boyle suggested that examination of man is an examination of God. Source
