Crystals III

The palaces of Gaia – Gaia

The palaces of Gaia – Gaia

Indeed from the start, the Cyclops and the Hekatoncheires demonstrated extremely high responsibility for the work they had been tasked with. They were fully cognizant of the vital importance their work had for the development of the planet but also for the beneficial long life of their mother, Gaia. Their cooperation had been completely successful, diligent and completely seamless, while their cooperation with the rest of the titanic forces, highly commendable. After finishing their work, Oceanus and Tythys, with the phenomenon of the rain and the creation of the terrestrial panocean, the Cyclops then took up their role, caring for the good function of the earth.

In the beginning therefore, in proportion to the liquid element, the continental crust of the Earth occupied a very small part of the Earth’s surface, since the panocean was very shallow. But gradually, the landmass increased and the surface of the oceans shrank, to reach at a certain point, the present proportion, with 70 % of the Earth’s surface covered by water.

In their first attempt to separate land from water, the Hekatoncheires and the auxiliary titanic powers created the oldest known supercontinent on Earth which is estimated to have been the particularly fragile Supercontinent Vaalbara,14 whose joining began 3.8 billion years ago. It seemed that it was completed about 3.1 billion years ago, while it had already started to transform into the next supercontinent. On this supercontinent and on today’s area of Kaapvaal Craton, the Cyclops erected their mother Gaia’s palaces. On the fragile, soft crust of the Earth with the gigantic geological forces exercised through the depths of the mantle, Gaia’s palaces were continuously on the move, as if they had been erected on a ship that travelled on calm oceans, but which at times would be agitated and shatter the tranquility of Gaia’s palaces. Planet earth was still malleable and pulsating as a result of every natural force affecting it and so, Vaalbara would be prone to a breakup. But the Cyclops and the Hekatoncheires, along the auxiliary titanic forces, were struggling to keep it in one piece. They would open crevices in certain points to ‘release’ pressure and temperature as well as the pressure coming from the mantle in the form of volcanoes that spewed hot lava. But even they did not manage to prevent the eventual breakup. The breakup was beyond their powers to prevent, and so, following the order of Blue Uranus, they focused on the points that Gaia’s palaces had been built. They had to be saved at any cost. Blue Uranus had understood that they had been hasty in building Gaia’s palaces on a fragile continental riff that was flowing on a very fragile mantle with still very high temperatures. It still had to cool down considerably, to allow for the solid crust to become thicker, more solid and stable. Natural geological forces should not have been superseded in any way, since it is only through natural evolution and selection that a steady framework can be achieved, to create anything natural or artificial. Uranus consoled Gaia who was crestfallen and quite deflated, seeing that her palaces were in danger. Uranus then explained to Gaia that the small part of the landmass on which her palaces had been erected could be preserved, given that such project fell within the rubric of the Supernatural forces, and consequently, the multi-skilled Cyclops with the aid of their helpers, would manage to save them. Indeed, when the breakup of Vaalbara occurred, two chucks of it were salvaged, that can in fact be still seen today. The first is at Kaapvaal Craton with Gaia’s palaces, which today is at the Limpopo County, South Africa.15

The efforts of the Supernatural Forces did not stop of course, nor did they slack, since to keep Gaia alive it was - and still is – necessary that the lithospheric plates to keep on moving continuously. At the same time, they also had to protect the part of Vaalbara that Gaia’s palaces existed. The Cyclops, therefore, with continuous seamless cooperation and hypereffort, certainly with the good help of the Hekatoncheires and the auxiliary titanic powers, continued moving the lithospheric plates with simultaneous rearrangement of the continental and the marine crust. Fragile Vaalbara had indicated a tendency for breakup from the start. To that supercontinent, new landmass was added, either by means of the divergent movement of the lithospheric plates or the deepening of the oceans or by volcanic landfilling and embanking, and gradually became supercontinent Ur. Directing whatever chunk of landmass was here and there or emerged at that time to the surface of the Earth towards the remaining parts of the older Vaalbara, the Cyclops created the next Supercontinent Ur, whose size was not greater that present-day Australia. It covered approximately 15% of today’s continental landmass of the earth16 but despite that, it is still considered a supercontinent on account of its being unique. In this way, the Cyclops had already secured to a great extent Gaia’s palaces. The clear and present danger to see them dissolve at any time had been averted, although some extra work would still be necessary to secure them permanently.

The solid crust of the earth became more stable and compact, but the temperatures in the mantle still needed to decrease. For that reason, the area under the name Kaapvaal Craton was under the ongoing surveillance of the Cyclops, in their effort to keep Gaia’s palaces untouched. That surveillance was kept up in every change of the morphology of the surface of the Earth. Thus, that small part of the earth was preserved untouched till today, despite all the movement of the lithospheric plates of the earth and all the changes and creation of new continents or supercontinents that followed, preserving Gaia’s palaces untouched for billions of years, but with their position shifting all the time. Up until today – the myths and legends say – the palaces of mother Earth, Gaia, lie well-protected from man’s prying eyes, and they will reveal themselves only when humankind raises itself to the intellectual level of true and real respect towards the environment and to Gaia, the Mother Earth. Once, at an area more to the northeast of Gaia’s palaces and at a distance of about 4 thousand kilometers, the last phylogenetic tree of man would commence its evolutionary course, under the protection of Gaia and the merciful Iapetide Premetheus17 about 6 to 7 million years ago.

A little after the completion of the creation of the supercontinent Ur, the first prokaryotic organisms would appear in the oceans. The friendly to life marine environment would accommodate life which, lacking antagonism would replicate itself and fill the oceans with genetic material. Earth, as a unified living organism under the form of ‘Gaia’ was in a state of ongoing regrouping and revitalization, altering its form continuously. The titanic forces would respectfully and altruistically serve mother Earth, since she is their mother and will be the mother of all livings things. They contribute to the morphology of the continental earth about 2.7 billion years ago, which then transformed into Supercontinent Kenorland,18 either with the addition of cratons of the Neoarchean Era19 or with the creation of new continental crust. A little later, it will become a significant part of the Supercontinent Nena. During the same period, Argus and Kottus stabilized the average radius of the mantle of the earth and its scaled range of temperature, while Sterops with Briareus would stabilize the average thickness of the solid crust to about the present-day levels. During this period the multicellular organisms would appear. The stromatolites that dominated that period showed the way Earth was oxygenized.

Since Gaia’s palaces have by now been stabilized, the Cyclops were tasked with the regrouping of the edifices of the palaces, while their careful decoration also commenced. Decoration had to be simple yet beautiful, like mother Earth deserved. Gaia did not require golden palaces or silver shutters and diamond doorknobs. Everything had to be earthly, natural, simple and beautiful. So, in the beginning, they began constructing small fountains, easy-flowing creeks that sometimes joined one another to form small waterfalls. Many thermogeysers in various colors, red-brown and orange, added color to the palaces, up until flora appeared that will complete the decoration, color-wise. Whenever there was water, unicellular and multicellular prokaryotic organisms would fill the waters of the palaces. Cyanoalgae, phaeophyceae and rhodophyceae would appear everywhere while the bacteria that dominated planet earth at that time, either in synergies or in competition, would evolve in fusions, symbioses, symbiogenesis, transmuting into many variants of bacteria, like theophiles, thermophiles, thermoxeophiles, swimming bacteria, which, by means of symbiogenesis would later create the eukaryotic cell.

During that period, earth’s atmosphere was continuously enriched with oxygen and had reached the level of 15% which allowed the emergence of organisms that used up oxygen. This resulted in a large-scale oxidation that turned the continental crust red and also the waters that were near the lands. The whole planet tended to acquire a reddish-brown hue. 2.4 to 2.1 billion years ago, it was the period of the Huronian period, something that altered the ratio between landmass and water. It is estimated that during that period the separation of the mega-organism20 into the three major categories of life, the Archaea, the Bacteria and the Eukaryotes. With the end of the Huronian graciation period, undoubtedly the eukaryotic cells appeared, as the next revolutionary step if life, since it was during that period that the oldest known eukaryotic cells were found. Extended orogeny during the Orosirian period determined the morphology of the surface of the Earth about 2.05 billion years ago.

The result of the Cyclopean efforts to create more stable supercontinents was seen in the Supercontinent Columbia,21 also named Nuna, whose fusion is estimated to have commenced about 2.1 billion years, perhaps even earlier. Orogenesis continued into the Penokean orogeny, about 1.85 billion years ago, increasing the continental landmass of the Earth. Continuing with the movement of the lithospheric plates, large and small, the Cyclops would form the next supercontinent, Supercontinent Nena,22 which represents a transitional period that quickly turned into Supercontinent Columbia. Sedimentation expanded on parts of the continental crust of the Earth, covering and increasing its continental surface leading to the formation of areas about 1.4 billion years ago that exist still today.

Planet Earth found itself at a significant point of its developmental curve at that time. The Cyclops studied, estimated and designed the morphology of the continental landmass and the ratios of earth to water very carefully, always taking into consideration what would suit the already appearing lifeforms but also the complex and multifarious lifeforms that would appear much later. Certainly, all Cyplops and their assistants contributed to the difficult work of shaping the morphology of the surface of the earth. But in that case, it was Sterops and his assistant Briareus who were the main contributors, tasked with the care and preservation of the continental crust of the Earth. Definitely, many auxiliary titanic forces had given a hand in that project, all of which however had set themselves under Sterops. So, about 1.3 billion years ago, Sterops ordered the auxiliary titanic powers to engage in the change of the morphology of the continental crust of the earth that took the form of Supercontinent Rodinia23 which would last until 750 million years ago, after which point it began to break up, preparing the ground for the creation of the next supercontinent, Supercontinent Pannotia,24 which in turn started breaking up and separate into the almost jointed Supercontinent Gondwana25 and the Supercontinent Laurasia26 or Euramerica, with Gondwana being the dominant one. From that point onwards, whatever chunk of landmass existed would fuse gradually with the Euramerica in the north and Gondwana in the south, until, about 300 million years ago, they would create the Supercontinent Pangaea which is the last and most well-known supercontinent, whose breakup would result into the present-day morphology of the continental crust of the Earth. In the beginning, its parts were loosely joined but with time, these parts fused more securely to reach an absolute unified whole as a single supercontinent about 255 to 180 million years ago. After that point, supercontinent Pangaea started to break up about 175 million years ago, a breakup which we can say that continues till today.

This is more or less the general framework of the changes in the morphology of the continental crust of the Earth which transformed Earth into a living planet with a unified empathetic proprioception, as if it were / or as if it is - a unified living organism. The landmass of the surface of the Earth which today is a little more than one fourth of the total surface of the Earth, was initially smaller than one sixth, in response to the adjustments happening in the glaciation periods. About 650 million years ago, the greatest part of Australia, Antarctica, India, Africa, Europe and almost the complete mass of Siberia, China, Alaska and Arabia were under the sea. But after that period, either through the movement of the tectonic plates or due to the climatic changes, the surface of the continental landmass continued increasing, either as a result of embanking or the emergence of landmass due to the deepening of the surface of the oceans, or as a result of other natural processes.

Up to this point we have all the supercontinents that had been created in the past, completed their developmental course and vanished forever as ‘lost supercontinents’. It goes without saying that from one supercontinent to the next, the process was slow and gradual. So, as the previous one broke up, the next one would start to form at the same time. The new supercontinents, more or less responsible for the form of the continental earth’s form of landmass today, are the Supercontinent Eurasia and the Supercontinent America, about 50 million years ago, while the rest acquired their final form about 15 million years ago. About 5 million years ago, the Supercontinent Afro-Eurasia was created which is however seen as three different continents.27

On with their efforts, the Supernatural Forces finally shaped the surface of the Earth in its current morphology. So, about 5 million years ago, the continents had already acquired their current form, but they are still on their slow move and change that does not become visible. Taking into consideration the ranking of the five continents in terms of size, these are: Eurasia, Africa, America, Oceania and Antarctica, while if the ranking includes seven continents, these are: Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Oceania and Antarctica. Mother-Earth, Gaia, is lovingly watching through her palaces all the complex web of the global living organism on millions of different and independent living creatures and her soul is elated. Her purpose was met! Planet Earth was transformed into a living planet, full of millions of lifeforms, something not easily met in any other planet across the universe. The uniqueness of the admirer!