GAIA MOTHER OF EARTH AND YHWH Increase and Multiply Water Earths Grow Plants Grow Animals Mate Animals Mate Humans

Water Earths Grow Earths

Grow plants cross pollination 

Grow animals mate animals breeding 

Grow humans mating  

Farming

Watering the Earths of the Universes Mutilverses

Gaia Mother Earth 
     The first Greek god was actually a goddess. She is Gaia, or Mother Earth, who created herself out of primordial chaos. From her fertile womb all life sprang, and unto Mother Earth all living things must return after their allotted span of life is over.GAIA (or Gaea) was the Protegenos (primeval divinity) of earth, one of the primal elements who first emerged at the dawn of creation, along with air, sea and sky. She was the great mother of all : the heavenly gods were descended from her union with Ouranos (the sky), the sea-gods from her union with Pontos (the sea), the Gigantes from her mating with Tartaros (the hell-pit) and mortal creatures were sprung or born from her earthy flesh.

GAIA & THE BIRTH OF THE COSMOS

I) THE HESIODIC COSMOGONY

Hesiod, Theogony 116 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or C7th B.C.) :
"Verily at first Khaos (Air) came to be, but next wide-bosomed Gaia (Earth), the ever-sure foundation of all the deathless ones who hold the peaks of snowy Olympos, and dim Tartaros (Hell) in the depth of the wide-pathed Earth, and Eros (Love), fairest among the deathless gods, who unnerves the limbs and overcomes the mind and wise counsels of all gods and all men within them. From Khaos (Air) came forth Erebos (Darkness) and black Nyx (Night); but of Nyx (Night) were born Aither (Light) and Hemera (Day), whom she conceived and bore from union in love with Erebos. And Gaia (Earth) first bore starry Ouranos (Heaven), equal to herself, to cover her on every side. And she brought forth long Ourea (Mountains), graceful haunts of the goddess Nymphai who dwell amongst the glens of the mountains. She bare also the fruitless deep with his raging swell, Pontus (Sea), without sweet union of love.
But afterwards she lay with Ouranos and bare deep-swirling Okeanos [Earth-encircling River], Koios and Krios and Hyperion and Iapetos, Theia and Rheia, Themis and Mnemosyne and gold-crowned Phoibe and lovely Tethys."

Hesiod, Theogony 126 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or C7th B.C.) :
"And Gaia first bare starry Ouranos (Heaven), equal to herself, to cover her on every side, and to be an ever-sure abiding-place for the blessed gods . . . But afterwards she [Gaia] lay with Ouranos and bare deep-swirling Okeanos, Koios and Krios and Hyperion and Iapetos, Theia and Rheia, Themis and Mnemosyne and gold-crowned Phoibe and lovely Tethys. After them was born Kronos the wily, youngest and most terrible of her children, and he hated his lusty sire. And again, she bare the Kyklopes, overbearing in spirit, Brontes, and Steropes and stubborn-hearted Arges.
And again, three other sons were born of Gaia and Ouranos, great and doughty beyond telling, Kottos and Briareos and Gyes [the Hekatonkheires]. From their shoulders sprang a hundred arms, not to be approached, and each had fifty heads upon his shoulders on their strong limbs, and irresistible was the stubborn strength that was in their great forms. For of all the children that were born of Gaia and Ouranos, these were the most terrible, and they were hated by their own father from the first. And he used to hide them all away in a secret place of Gaia so soon as each was born, and would not suffer them to come up into the light: and Ouranos rejoiced in his evil doing.
But vast Gaia (Earth) groaned within, being straitened, and she made the element of grey flint and shaped a great sickle, and told her plan to her dear sons. And she spoke, cheering them, while she was vexed in her dear heart : `My children, gotten of a sinful father, if you will obey me, we should punish the vile outrage of your father; for he first thought of doing shameful things.'
So she said; but fear seized them all, and none of them uttered a word. But great Kronos the wily took courage and answered his dear mother : `Mother, I will undertake to do this deed, for I reverence not our father of evil name, for he first thought of doing shameful things.'
So he said : and vast Gaia rejoiced greatly in spirit, and set and hid him in an ambush, and put in his hands a jagged sickle, and revealed to him the whole plot. And Ouranos came, bringing on night and longing for love, and he lay about Gaia spreading himself full upon her. Then the son from his ambush stretched forth his left hand and in his right took the great long sickle with jagged teeth, and swiftly lopped off his own father's members and cast them away to fall behind him.
And not vainly did they fall from his hand; for all the bloody drops that gushed forth Gaia received, and as the seasons moved round she bare the strong Erinyes and the great Gigantes with gleaming armour, holding long spears in their hands and the Nymphai whom they call Meliai [Of Honey, or Of Ash-Trees] all over the boundless earth."Orphica, Theogonies Fragment 54 (from Damascius) :

"Originally there was Hydros (Water), he [Orpheus] says, and Mud, from which Ge (the Earth) solidified: he posits these two as first principles, water and earth . . . The one before the two [Thesis], however, he leaves unexpressed, his very silence being an intimation of its ineffable nature. The third principle after the two was engendered by these--Ge (Earth) and Hydros (Water), that is--and was a Serpent (Drakon) with extra heads growing upon it of a bull and a lion, and a god’s countenance in the middle; it had wings upon its shoulders, and its name was Khronos (Unaging Time) and also Herakles. United with it was Ananke (Inevitability, Compulsion) , being of the same nature, or Adrastea, incorporeal, her arms extended throughout the universe and touching its extremities. I think this stands for the third principle, occuping the place of essence, only he [Orpheus] made it bisexual [as Phanes] to symbolize the universal generative cause. And I assume that the theology of the [Orphic] Rhapsodies discarded the two first principles (together with the one before the two, that was left unspoken) [that is, the Orphics discarded the concepts of Thesis, Khronos and Ananke], and began from this third principle [Phanes] after the two, because this was the first that was expressible and acceptable to human ears. For this is the great Khronos (Unaging Time) that we found in it [the Rhapsodies], the father of Aither and Khaos. Indeed, in this theology too [the Hieronyman], this Khronos (Time), the serpent has offspring, three in number: moist Aither (Light) (I quote), unbounded Khaos (Air), and as a third, misty Erebos (Darkness) . . . Among these, he says, Khronos (Time) generated an egg--this tradition too making it generated by Khronos, and born ‘among’ these because it is from these that the third Intelligible triad is produced [Protogonos-Phanes]. What is this triad, then? The egg; the dyad of the two natures inside it (male and female) [Ouranos, heaven, and Gaia, earth], and the plurality of the various seeds between; and thirdly an incorporeal god with golden wings on his shoulders, bulls’ heads growing upon his flanks, and on his head a monstrous serpent, presenting the appearance of all kinds of animal forms . . . And the third god of the third triad this theology too celebrates as Protogonos (First-Born) [Phanes], and it calls him Zeus the order of all and of the whole world, wherefore he is also called Pan (All). So much this second genealogy supplies concerning the Intelligible principles."Ovid, Metamorphoses 1. 1 ff (trans. Melville) (Roman epic C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) :

"Ere land and sea and the all-covering sky were made, in the whole world the countenance of nature was the same, all one, well named Chaos, a raw and undivided mass, naught but a lifeless bulk, with warring seeds of ill-joined elements compressed together. No Titan [Helios the Sun] as yet poured light upon the world, no waxing Phoebe [Selene the Moon] her crescent filled anew, nor in the ambient air yet hung the earth, self-balanced, equipoised, nor Amphitrite’s [the Sea’s] arms embraced the long far margin of the land. Though there were land and sea and air, the land no foot could tread, no creature swim the sea, the air was lightless; nothing kept its form, all objects were at odds, since in one mass cold essence fought with hot, and moist with dry, and hard with soft and light with things of weight. This strife a Deus (God) [the elder Eros or Khronos?], with nature’s blessing, solved; who severed land from sky and sea from land, and from the denser vapours set apart the ethereal sky; and, each from the blind heap resolved and freed, he fastened in its place appropriate in peace and harmony. The fiery weightless force of heaven’s vault [Ouranos] flashed up and claimed the topmost citadel; next came the air in lightness and in place; the thicker earth with grosser elements sank burdened by its weight; lowest and last the girdling waters pent the solid globe. So into shape whatever god it was reduced the primal matter and prescribed its several parts. Then first, to make the earth even on every side, he rounded it into a mighty disc, then bade the sea extend and rise under the rushing winds, and gird the shores of the encircled earth . . . Scarce had he thus all things in finite bounds divided when the Sidera (Stars), in darkness blind long buried, over all the spangled sky began to gleam; and, that no part or place should lack fit forms of life, the firmament he made the home of gods and goddesses and the bright constellations; in the sea he set the shining fish to swim; the land received the beasts, the gusty air the birds."

God YHWH Yahweh Sabaoth through Adam and Eve:
Old Testament

The Book of Genesis

Chapter 1

1

In the beginning God created heaven, and earth.

2

And the earth was void and empty, and

darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God moved over the waters.

3

And God

said: Be light made. And light was made.

4

And God saw the light that it was good; and he divided

the light from the darkness.

5

And he called the light Day, and the darkness Night; and there was

evening and morning one day.

6

And God said: Let there be a firmament made amidst the waters:

and let it divide the waters from the waters.

7

And God made a firmament, and divided the waters

that were under the firmament, from those that were above the firmament, and it was so.

8

And

God called the firmament, Heaven; and the evening and morning were the second day.

9

God also

said: Let the waters that are under the heaven, be gathered together into one place: and let the dry

land appear. And it was so done.

10

And God called the dry land, Earth; and the gathering together

of the waters, he called Seas. And God saw that it was good.

11

And he said: Let the earth bring

forth the green herb, and such as may seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind, which

may have seed in itself upon the earth. And it was so done.

12

And the earth brought forth the green

herb, and such as yieldeth seed according to its kind, and the tree that beareth fruit having seed

each one according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

13

And the evening and the morning

were the third day.

14

And God said: Let there be lights made in the firmament of heaven, to divide

the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years:

15

To

shine in the firmament of heaven, and to give light upon the earth. And it was so done.

16

And God

made two great lights: a greater light to rule the day; and a lesser light to rule the night: and the

stars.

17

And he set them in the firmament of heaven to shine upon the earth.

18

And to rule the

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day and the night, and to divide the light and the darkness. And God saw that it was good.

19

And

the evening and morning were the fourth day.

20

God also said: Let the waters bring forth the

creeping creature having life, and the fowl that may fly over the earth under the firmament of

heaven.

21

And God created the great whales, and every living and moving creature, which the

waters brought forth, according to their kinds, and every winged fowl according to its kind. And

God saw that it was good.

22

And he blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the waters

of the sea: and let the birds be multiplied upon the earth.

23

And the evening and morning were

the fifth day.

24

And God said: Let the earth bring forth the living creature in its kind, cattle and

creeping things, and beasts of the earth, according to their kinds. And it was so done.

25

And God

made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds, and cattle, and every thing that creepeth on

the earth after its kind. And God saw that it was good.

26

And he said: Let us make man to our

image and likeness: and let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air,

and the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that moveth upon the earth.

27

And

God created man to his own image: to the image of God he created him: male and female he created

them.

28

And God blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it,

and rule over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all living creatures that move upon

the earth.

29

And God said: Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed upon the earth, and

all trees that have in themselves seed of their own kind, to be your meat:

30

And to all the beasts

of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to all that move upon the earth, and wherein there is

life, that they may have to feed upon. And it was so done.

31

And God saw all the things that he

had made, and they were very good. And the evening and morning were the sixth day.