Chthonic goddess

Armed with sceptre and corn
and cornucopia and pomegranate.
She answers to many names.
Ninmah, Tellus,Houtu,
Pachamama, Umay
Rhea, Ops, Gaia,
Bhudevi
Womb goddess, mother goddess
Queen of the earth.
There is a certain cunning
In casting her as a goddess.
Every one knows
that goddess have to be
munificent and benevolent and kind
And are bound by prayers.
Goddess are vulnerable
And made predictable by their
Goddess-ness.
What better way to bind
The strong, whimsical, capricious
Earth and her seething core?
Now, earth is a goddess.
A strong powerful form
And Man sees a female presence,
A woman.
He smacks his lips
And strips layers and layers
Of her silky brown skin.
Saws off her green billowing , nurturing hair
And muddies her royal- blue blood.
Avaricious, rapacious, lustful.
He forgets the seething liquid core
That , when pushed too far,
Like an avenging deity,
bursts forth in
Large tsunami waves
And angry tremors,
Destroying him and his world in
The blink of his eye.
An old tale tells of
Bhooma Devi who in a frantic union
WIth a beastial god
gave birth to a Monster
There is a lesson here.
Man thinks the female body
Is his to rape, pillage, plunder, conquer.
Perhaps we should have called earth Father.
The punishing, the harsh the patriarch.
The angry god breathing fire .
Then perhaps,
earth would have been saved.