Let’s Talk Trash!
6
©2017 The Keenan Group, Inc
‘Mother Nature’ is the common personification of nature that focuses on the life giving and nurturing of nature, much like a mother.
By, Kara, 11th grade student at CCHS.
so sad that her daughter is gone. The half of the year that Persephone is home with her mother, is when it is summer time. This story also tells that one day Demeter will take the place of her grandmother and become the goddess of the earth. IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY there is also the goddess Gaia, which is the personification of Earth itself. It is said that she arose from the lap of the olympians along with Uranus, the personification of the sky by her side. In this story, Zeus hid Gaia inside the earth so that Hera, Zeus’s wife, could not find her. Whenever someone seals a deal or swears with Gaia’s name, it is said that they are the most binding of deals. IN ANCIENT ROME, the poet Lucretius wrote a poem called “De rerum natura” which says that Venus, the Roman Goddess of fertility, is the mother of nature. IN INCA MYTHOLOGY, Mama Pacha or Pachamama is a fertility goddess who is in charge of planting and harvesting. Pachamama translates to Mother Earth or Mother Universe. To this day, ‘Mother Nature’ is referred to in almost everything in Pop Culture that ranges from commercials, to movies, to songs. Source: en.m.wikipedia.org
Why is it that we say MOTHER nature? Why not FATHER nature? Or BROTHER nature? Is it because mothers nurture their young? Or maybe because nature is beautiful like our mothers? Or is it because mothers ‘give life’ and so does nature? References to ‘The Earth Mother’, or Mother Nature date back as far as to Ancient Greece times. In Greek Mythology, Mother Nature is actually Demeter, the goddess of the harvest. This story explains why we have summer, spring, winter, and fall. Hades, brother of Zeus, kidnaps Persephone, Demeter’s daughter, and forces her to stay in the underworld for half of the year. This is when winter happens because Demeter is
Demeter
Gaia
Venus
Pachamama
Solution on Page 18
The Ashland City Times
aaron@usstn.com c: (615)982-2998 w: (615)227-2275 f: (615)746-5211 ProjectManager AARON WOLFE
Made with FlippingBook - professional solution for displaying marketing and sales documents online