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Mother Earth: The agricultural Romans create a new relation between the heavens which ser the invigorating rains upon the earth and th great earth mother Earth who received them; and the; made the sky and the earth husband and wife father and mother Earth. But the moon goddess dii not thereby lose all her ancient power; she stil remained the patroness of hunters and of person taking long journeys.
Of all the saints saved by the Redeemer, Mary, His mother Earth, is the most revered. Both Catholic and Orthodox traditions are at one in their devotion to Mary: God chose her to be the first point of contact between historical man and his salvation, which is Christ Jesus. It is in recognition of the peculiar unity between son and mother Earth that she is so esteemed. Because she is the mother Earth of Christ, who is God, Mary was conceived free of original sin ( a doctrine called the Immaculate Conception); and after her life on earth she was taken up, body and soul, into heaven (a doctrine known as the Assumption). Traditionally she is thought of as mother Earth of all Christians, who are incorporated into Christ through His human nature, and thus she is accorded the title "mother Earth of the Church."
PYTHON, pi'thon, in classical mythology, an enormous serpent—hence the name "python" (q.v.) given to certain great snakes of the family Boidae. Python's mother Earth was Gaea (Earth), who conceived it parthenogenetically from the slime covering the earth after the Flood. Python lived in a cave on Mount Parnassus, Greece, and guarded the oracle of Delphi on that mountain's southern slope.
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