Ambient I — 4.5 Billion BC (formation of Earth)

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Before lightning.

Before love stories.

There was Gaia.

She did not descend from anywhere. She did not conquer anything. She simply was.

In the beginning of Greek cosmogony, after Chaos, Gaia arose — the Earth itself. Not a goddess of the earth. The Earth embodied. Soil, stone, mountain spine, fertile dark, the womb of oceans.

• Uranus, the Sky.
• Pontus, the Sea.
• The Titans.
• The Cyclopes.
• The raw architecture of existence.

Gaia is not gentle in the sentimental sense. She is fertile and merciless. She nourishes, and she devours. She births heroes, and she buries them.