the earth
quoted 5 times by 5 works · as a person
Most often reported — someone's speech given in report. The locus given for each is the passage in the quoting book; the harvest records no place inside what is quoted, and nothing here pretends to.
2 quoted · 3 reported
3 neutralin the voice of Rohita 1 , hymn speaker 1 , narrator 1 , officiant 1
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in the voice of Rohita
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Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) Anonymous (Vedic) 1 citation
The verse explicitly frames Rohita's words as reported speech ('Rohita addressed the earth: From you let all this be born...'), a cosmogonic proclamation.
Having fashioned them upright with hymns, Rohita addressed the earth:
kanda 18 ¶ -
in the voice of hymn speaker
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Hymn 30 to Earth Homeric Hymns 1 neutral 1 citation · 2 passages
The passage is a first-person hymnic address to Earth that includes praise, petition, and farewell.
I will sing of well-founded Earth, mother of all, eldest of all beings.
hymn 30 to earth ¶ -
in the voice of officiant
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Rigveda Aufrecht (ed.) 1 neutral 1 citation · 4 passages
The burial verses are direct second-person commands addressed to the Earth and to the dead.
I prop up the earth from thee [the corpse], placing this clod upon it;
maṇḍala 10 ¶ -
Manusmṛti Manu 1 citation
Formal declaration of a named vow constitutes a rule-stating speech act attributed to the Earth's exemplary conduct.
As the Earth supports all beings equally, so is the supporting of all beings the vow of the Earth for a king.
chapter 9 ¶ -
in the voice of narrator
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Viṣṇu Smṛti Viṣṇu 1 neutral 1 citation
The passage explicitly sets up the following verses as a direct address to Earth introducing reported consoling speech
With unwavering minds, they should console those afflicted with grief for their deceased relatives, With such words, O Earth, as I shall now declare to you, O you of enchanting mind.
chapter 19 ¶
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