Who is Mother Nature?

Answer 1

Mother Nature is a personification of nature. Images of women representing "mother" earth, and mother nature, are timeless. Long before history was recorded, goddesses were worshiped for their association with fertility, fecundity, and agricultural bounty. Priestesses held dominion over Incan, Assyrian, Babylonian, Slavonic, Roman, Greek, Proto-Indo-European, and Iroquoian fertility religions in the millennia prior to the inception of patriarchal religions.

Algonquin legend says that "[b]eneath the clouds [lives] the Earth-Mother from whom is derived the Water of Life, who at her bosom feeds plants, animals and men" (Larousse 428). She is known as Nakomis, the Grandmother.

Although not a scientific term, the term 'mother nature' has sometimes been used in science-related papers, of either global (rarely universal) unexplained phenomena or of life-related phenomena which acquire their energy either from photosynthesis or chemosynthesis with no apparent intelligent human assistance, because it is a more neutral term than the word God.

History
The word nature comes from the Latin word, natura, meaning birth or character (see nature (innate)). In English its first recorded use, in the sense of the entirety of the phenomena of the world, was very late in history in 1662; however Natura, and the personification of Mother Nature, was widely popular in the Middle Ages and can be traced to Ancient Greece in origin. The pre-Socratic philosophers of Greece had invented Nature when they abstracted the entirety of phenomenon of the world into a single name and spoken of as a single object: Natura. Later Greek thinkers such as Aristotle were not as entirely inclusive, excluding the stars and moon, the "Supernatural", from Nature. Thus from this Aristotelian view—nature existing inside a larger framework and not inclusive of everything—Nature became a personified deity, and it is from this we have the origins of a mythological goddess Nature. Later medieval Christian thinkers did not see Nature as inclusive of everything, but thought that she was created by God, her place lay on earth, below the heavens and moon—Nature lay somewhere in the middle, with agents above her (angels) and below her (daemons and hell). For the medieval mind she was only a personification, not a goddess. The modern concept of Nature, all inclusive of all phenomenon, has returned to its original pre-Socratic roots no longer a personification or deity except in a rhetorical sense, a bow to her illustrious traditions.-

Answer 2

the Mother Nature is the Goddess of Gaiea of the Greek mythology.the story goes beginning of time,she was considered the Mother of earth.until She had Zeus.brought Zeus into the earth from a baby.there is a site that you can check out that i know of to be totally true on the Greeks.the site is listed below.
Blessed Be,
Ashka )O( Witch

Answer 3

Hi,

Mother Nature is a pagan concept that is still accepted in our Christian world.

In most pagan religions and fertility cults the sky is represented as a male, eg Zeus, Thor, Jupiter etc.

The earth is usually represented as a woman or mother. The earth is fertile and brings forth life with help from the rains and sun from the sky. The earth is usually represented as a mother and some titles for the goddessess who had this role were "Earth Mother."

"Mother Nature" is exactly the same concept. Nature is bountiful and fertile and in good old fashioned pagan way, we represent it as a woman, "Mother Nature."

Hope this answers your question,

Demociticus

Answer 4

Your tale is an extremely profound philosophical one. yet you omit the point that God might want to be the author and is finally the author of what you call "mom nature". The question must be is God interventionist? Does He interfere in his creation? or has He in basic terms as you recommend set the initial guidelines of the universe and enable it play out like a complicated pc recreation simulation. then you definitely commence twiddling with philosophical subject matters like determinism and loose will. Are we loose to modify our destiny or has all of that been determined? i in my opinion position self assurance in determinism, because you in a lot of situations get precisely what you ask for. often times it isn't what you want - in spite of the indisputable fact that it really is because you probably did not specify the question wisely. in case you quite understand that very last area, i imagine you've taken the first step in information the capacity of the human ideas.

Answer 5

God is male/female. The female side of God is where mother nature resides. God wants us to protect the world and its environment and its resources.
If you abuse mother nature, you abuse God.

Can you live without the world? Without water, air, food, trees, climate? No, God made you dependant on the Earth. You can not live without it. It you can not live without it you will take care of it right? This is Gods will.

Mother nature is everything to do with the Earth and its flora and fauna.
Protect it with your LIFE.

Answer 6

mother nature in some old earth religions represents the fim.. side of god
father god.....mother earth or mother nature same thing

Answer 7

Its not so much a question of who, its a question of what... she is not A living thing, but infact countless things. She is what makes the plants grow, the birds sing...

Answer 8

Her name is Gaia, and she is one of three, theres the Weaver, the Wild and the Worm...she is the Wild, nature in all its glory, in all its fury, she is rebirth. The Weaver is technology and the Worm is death.
Its where I got my name. : )

Answer 9

She's the one who makes the lemons life gives you.

Answer 10

Nature and all its biology.