Mother, forgive us, for we do what we know not.
Demeter would take the place of her
grandmother, Gaia, and her mother, Rhea, as goddess of the earth in a
time when humans and gods thought the activities of the heavens more sacred
than those of earth.
- Leeming, David Adams, Creation
Myths of the World: An Encyclopedia (Vol. 1 of 2, Bloomsbury
Academic, 2010).
Now the earth was corrupt in [G-]'s sight,
and the earth was filled with violence. And
[G-] saw that the earth was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted its ways upon
the earth. Thus [G-] said to Noah,
"I have determined to make an end of all flesh, for the earth is filled
with violence because of them; now I am going to ruin them along with the
earth.
- Genesis 6.11-13, pericope: 6.1-22
semantic network: "Nature" from Latin, natura, meaning birth or character;, 1266 is the first English recorded use as total phenomena of the world, seated between divine and human; traced also to Ancient Greece, Rhea; Earth or "Eorthe" is Old English and the Norse had myth of a goddess called Jörð (Jord, Erth); the a common ancient Hebrew form #r,a, (noun common feminine singular absolute), earth, land, pronounced eretz.
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