Father Universe Mother Earth
People of ancient times were mystified by the creation of children and vegetation.
Father universe mother earth. Watch all the latest and archived episodes of father spitzer s universe on ewtn. In greek mythology gaia ˈɡeɪə ˈɡaɪə. The mother is usually the earth and the father the sky. Gaia is the ancestral mother of all life.
Many theologians have extrapolated over those biblical passages. The concept is complementary to a sky father or father sky. For us to be whole we need to balance the power and creativity of the masculine with the compassionate loving kindness and oneness of the feminine mother. Space time and astronomy in navajo sandpainting.
The sky is considered male the earth female and both are in the relation of man and wife to each other. There is a universal mother just as there is mother earth and that feminine energy is within us and must be utilised for us to be complete. The popular view is mainly driven by the goddess movement and reads that primitive societies initially were matriarchal worshi. One of them french jesuit pierre teilhard de chardin wrote hymn of the universe a magnificent reflection on the church father god and mother earth.
May be attributed to the fact that life emerges both from mother earth and from the womb of a mother long 37. Upon settling in a new territory the sky father wed the goddess of that land or the earth mother deity and in the minds of the early indo europeans the relationship between the sky father and localized earth mother was as simple as the sky father fertilized the earth mother which in turn gave birth to all living things keith 80. From ancient greek γαῖα a poetical form of γῆ gē land or earth also spelled gaea ˈdʒiːə is the personification of the earth and one of the greek primordial deities. In his first chapter entitled the mass on the world he finds himself on an asian steppe amidst a mountainous backdrop.
The mother earth sacred mountains inner form of mother earth mother nature animals plants fungi monera bacteria and protista algae and protozoa and father universe which is our inner spirituality sá ah naaghei ashkii bik eh hózhóón at ééd electromagnetic energy. White deer of autumn states in the native american book of life that indian children were taught that sky is father and earth is mother and that the great mystery is neither male nor female but aspects of both. When equated with the earth or the natural world such goddesses are sometimes referred to as mother earth or as the earth mother. Robert spitzer responds to a wide variety of questions from viewers discussing questions of faith science virtue and the existence of god.
Sky and earth one cannot flourish without the other. There is a difference of opinion between the academic and the popular conception of the term. Each has a separate role but each is equal to the other.