Earth

I lift up Heaven and Earth together with the plants.

The Earth is declared your mother — release your venom as homage to her.

Heaven stood firm, the earth stood firm, this broad atmosphere stood firm.

Even the firm trees thou shakest with the earth through thy power;

Yes, truly so, O Pṛthivī — thou bearest the cleft of the mountains;

The hymns of praise respond to thee at night with their refrains, O thou who movest everywhere;

But when Zeus had driven the Titans from heaven, huge Earth bore her youngest child Typhoeus of the love of Tartarus, by the aid of golden Aphrodite.

But when she was about to bring forth the goddess bright-eyed Athena, Zeus craftily deceived her with cunning words and put her in his own belly, as Earth and starry Heaven advised.

But when the blessed gods had finished their toil, and settled by force their struggle for honors with the Titans, they pressed far-seeing Olympian Zeus to reign and to rule over them, by Earth's prompting.

You can sleep during the whole voyage if you like, and the men shall sail you over smooth waters either to your own home, or wherever you please, even though it be a long way further off than Euboea, which those of my people who saw it when they took yellow-haired Rhadamanthus to see Tityus the son of Gaia, tell me is the furthest of any place - and yet they did the whole voyage in a single day wi …

"And I saw Tityus son of Gaia stretched upon the plain and covering some nine acres of ground.

And as soon as he had crossed the boundary, there again he made propitiatory offerings to Earth with libations and sought with sacrifices to win the favour of the gods and heroes that dwelt in Assyria.

next they did sacrifice to the Earth, as the magi directed, and lastly to the tutelary heroes of Syria.

Be ye my witnesses, O Earth and Sun, and virtue and Conscience, and Education, by which we distinguish the honorable and the base, that I have heard my country’s call, and have spoken.

It is, therefore, just on many accounts that you should aid me who am being wronged, and fitting that you should feel indignation against the men, who—O Earth and the Gods—when they need not have come into court at all had they done what is fair, are not ashamed to remind you of any improper acts of my father, or of wrongs which they committed against him, but even force me to go to law with them.

And Lady Earth, to whom I give my hands—

Him whom Earth produced, the founder of thy race?

There Earth brought Gorgon forth, dreadful prodigy.

But when he came and sent Themis, the child of Earth, away from the holy oracle of Pytho, Earth gave birth to dream visions of the night;

and the goddesses of twofold name, Persephone and the kindly goddess Demeter the queen of all, Earth the nurse of all, won it for themselves;

and by the counsel of the motherless goddess, he cast the teeth upon the deep fields to fall to the earth, from which the earth brought forth a sight fully-armed, above the surface of the soil;

O Earth, you once bore—as I heard, I heard the story told by foreigners once in my own home—you bore a race which sprang of the teeth of a snake with blood-red crest, that fed on beasts, to be the glory and reproach of Thebes.

The other Achaeans sat where they were all silent and orderly to hear the king, and Agamemnon looked into the vault of heaven and prayed saying, "I call Zeus the first and mightiest of all gods to witness, I call also Earth and Sun and the Erinyes who dwell below and take vengeance on him who shall swear falsely, that I have laid no hand upon the girl Briseis, neither to take her to my bed nor oth …

Thus is it with those whom you honor O holy goddess, bountiful spirit.

I will sing of well-founded Earth, mother of all, eldest of all beings.

For Erichthonius, the son of Hephaestus and Earth, took over from Cecrops, who was without male descent, his house and kingdom;

Are all begotten.

Of earth- "The Mother!

Wherefore, again, again, how merited

Pindus a Naiad bore him, Creusa the daughter of Gaia, delighting in the bed of the river-god Peneius.

and in the Attic Olympia too, and in the contests of deep-bosomed Mother Earth, and in all your local games.

There she will bear a child, whom famous Hermes will take from beneath his own dear mother and carry to the Seasons on their lovely thrones and to Gaia.

Earth, too, the eldest of the gods, the immortal, the unwearied, he wears away to his own ends, turning the soil with the offspring of horses as the plows weave to and fro year after year.

But some seem to themselves to interpret elegantly, in a physiological way, by allegorical argumentation, that Saturn is Time, and therefore Heaven and Earth his parents, as themselves having no origin, and therefore furnished with a sickle because by time all things are cut apart, and therefore a devourer of his own because all things put forth from himself he consumes back into himself.

As the Earth supports all beings equally, so is the supporting of all beings the vow of the Earth for a king.

A king should follow the brilliant conduct of Indra, of the Sun, of the Wind, of Yama, of Varuṇa, of the Moon, of Agni, and of the Earth.