i'm not sure why humans always seem to feel the need to apply human gender concepts to things like stars and planets. Sun as Father/Earth as Mother when neither the Sun nor the Earth care about you personally like a parent would or for our species either or any particular species for that matter. survive or not. that's it. bottum line. no pity is felt by the planet when an individual creature is dying or sorrow when an entire species dies out. the Earth may have a kind consciousness but if it does it isn't remotely human-like. well, maybe at one time we humans resembled our planet more, when we were fierce, pitiless and savage, when we fought off hyenas to snatch a piece of springbuck. maybe before we became tame and domesticated we were like the Earth.
oh i've noticed but our savagery is mostly sudued and/or sublimated into organized ventings like business, wars and sports. i also notice the Earth doesn't do anything about it when we greedy vicious little humans pollute it, destroy it's eco systems and drive other species into extinction. so all i'm saying is that whatever consciousness the Earth may have it doesn't include actively protecting the living organisms which inhabit it's surface. Earth doesn't care which species survive and which do not or if all perish so if it's a mother it's a neglectful uninvolved mother. the Sun is even more remote ... literally.
i don't expect anything but i might if i believed that the Earth was a motherly entity capable of feeling protective, defensive on behalf of her fauna and floral children. which is the only musing i was musing. why do we human see our planet and our star as benign parental figures when neither star nor planet have parental attributes? iow, why do we humans need to anthropromorphize the way we do?
