Earth
place · 12 works · 13 mentions · 17 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Earth the deity · earth the idea
the earth · earth · Tellus · mother Earth · mother earth · that which brings forth and nourishes · the ground · the level of earth · the world · this earth
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1 expressionThe Earth3 mentions
Phaedo (Greek) · Adversus Marcionem (Latin) · On the Nature of the Gods (Latin)
And so one man makes the earth stay below the heavens by putting a vortex about it, and another regards the earth as a flat trough supported on a foundation of air;
in the texts
Adversus Marcionem
The earth into which the mortal body is cast at death.
But if Christ, coming from the heavens, transfigured the body of our lowliness, conformed to the body of his glory, then this our body shall rise, which is humbled in sufferings, and cast into the earth by the very law of death.
At once the earth too is cursed — but before blessed.
Paryantapañcāśikā
The lowest level of the descending stages of manifestation, marking the terminus of the Lord's self-limiting descent.
self-reflective awareness of consciousness}}], takes on the stages ranging from the 'unsupported' [anāśrita] down to the level of earth.
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
The earth, personified as clothed by a cosmic being, identified with Bṛhaspati, and mapped onto the Vrātya's breath.
His first pervading-breath — that is this earth.
One of them clothes this earth, one of them became the encompasser of the atmosphere.
One who knows fire as brahman, Bṛhaspati as earth, attains brahman and becomes radiant with brahminic splendor.
On the Nature of the Gods
The earth, personified as the goddess Tellus, examined as a candidate for divinity linked to Ceres
Now if Ceres is from bearing (for so you said), the earth itself is a goddess (and so it is held;
Hymn 28 to Athena
Earth is part of the cosmic setting that reacts fearfully to Athena's birth.
great Olympus began to reel horribly at the might of the bright-eyed goddess, and earth round about cried fearfully, and the sea was moved and tossed with dark waves, while foam burst forth suddenly:
Hymn 29 to Hestia
The realm on which mortals live.
Hestia, in the high dwellings of all, both deathless gods and men who walk on earth, you have gained an everlasting abode and highest honor:
Phaedo
The physical world, whose shape and cosmic position Socrates wished Anaxagoras to explain teleologically, and whose support (vortex, trough of air) other natural philosophers mechanistically explained.
And so one man makes the earth stay below the heavens by putting a vortex about it, and another regards the earth as a flat trough supported on a foundation of air;
As I considered these things I was delighted to think that I had found in Anaxagoras a teacher of the cause of things quite to my mind, and I thought he would tell me whether the earth is flat or round, and when he had told me that, would go on to explain the cause and the necessity of it, and would tell me the nature of the best and why it is best for the earth to be as it is;
Rigveda
The personified earth, invoked as mother and cosmic power granting blessings.
may mother Earth and father Heaven give it.
May Mitra, Varuṇa, Aditi, Sindhu, Earth, and Sky grant us this.
May Mitra, Varuṇa, Aditi, Sindhu, Earth, and Sky grant us this.
Adversus Hermogenem
The earth made by God, whose 'invisible and rough' state is disputed.
A great question indeed, whether the earth, which was made, "was.
But for us there is one God and one earth, which God made in the beginning.
For he reduces the very name of earth to Matter, because the earth is what was made out of it.
Adversus Praxean
The earthly realm where the Son dwells and prays to the Father in heaven.
Yet in the very oikonomia the Father willed the Son to be held on earth, but himself in heaven;
De Carnis Resurrectione
Earth, the place into which the flesh is sown/dissolved and from which it is restored.
Hence too the apostle conceived to say that it is sown, when it is rendered back into the earth, because for seeds too the earth is a place of safekeeping, to be there laid down and thence sought back.
If the vessels themselves too fail, when out of them too it has flowed into its mother earth, it is reabsorbed as it were by a roundabout way, that from her it may be presented anew — an Adam to hear from the Lord, "Behold, Adam is become as one of us" — then truly possessed of the evil which he escaped, and of the good which he gained.
Cyropaedia
The nourishing earth to which Cyrus wants his body returned after death.
For what is more blessed than to be united with the earth, which brings forth and nourishes all things beautiful and all things good?