
Possibly the most disquieting sentence that I've ever read opens Robert Graves' retelling of one of the Greek myths:
One day Mother Earth was visiting Athens.*
Say what?
Also up there on my list of theological “What-duh-f**k?” moments is Isaac Bonewits' “Invocation to the Earth Mother”:
Thou Whom the Druids call Danu,
Come unto us.
Thou Who art Erde of the Germans,
Come unto us.
Thou Whom the Slavs call Ziva,
Come unto us....*
Half a mo here. We're calling Earth to come to us?
-
Exactly.