Essay On Sky Father

“Sky Father” is a Greek Mythological power of a sky god who is addressed as an all-powerful father: Uranus, Cronus, Zeus. Sky Father may also be taken co-dependent to the “Earth Mother”: Gaea. Sky Father is humanized to give a man-like, strong, commanding presence, often being tasked with controlling the major factors of human lives and keeping the other gods in check in a fatalistic culture. The Greeks created gods in the image of humans, flawed and having many human qualities even though they were gods. Cronus, Son of Uranus, disfigured and overthrew his father in the lust for power. The gods were highly emotional, constantly fought among themselves, behaved irrationally, inconsistently and unfairly, and were often jealous of each other. …show more content…
She symbolized the Earth and was a motherly figure because of how she was the “mother” of everything created in the universe. She was also depicted in Athenian vase paintings half-buried in the earth. Mother Earth is the bringer, nourisher, and protector of life. She offers all the life-nurturing minerals and nutrients that are necessary for human, fauna, and flora life to sprout, grow, and mature, thus symbolizing the womb and home for all life. She swaddles all seeds deposited into her soil, nourishes these seeds and brings them to fruition. Even after these seeds are matured into plants and trees, she continues to nourish them through her many umbilical cord-like roots.
Both the Earth and Sky created equally powerful religious impressions in Greek mythology. Earth as “Mother” preceding and giving birth to that of the “Father” as Sky. The relationship between Mother and Earth is a symbol of Fatherhood and Sky of natural phenomenon: Father sky raining down, or reutilizing the Mother Earth. With Father Sky ruling above and Mother Earth below, the role of the Great Mother falling to a natural subservient roll to that of the dominate Great Father in the