Crystals III

The separation of land and sea

The separation of land and sea

As indeed the group had remembered, the description by Orpheas and Eurydice had reached all the way to 50 million years ago, when the 2nd Battle of the Titans was completed. Right after that, they embarked on the description of the 3rd Battle of the Titans, after they first went summarily through the main events of the final battle of the 2nd Battle of the Titans and the next day, after the end of hostilities, making a concise reference to the period 65.5 to 50 million years ago. Thus, the description of the 3rd Battle of the Titans commenced by Orpheas and Eurydice, with Orpheas, taking the podium first.

So, from the beginning of the creation of the universe, the cosmic travelers on the “cosmic journey” initially saw the separation of the twelve Supernatural Titanic Forces, wrenching themselves away from the Unified Force in energy form, and being initially trapped into the quantum vacuum and directly bound to the Unified Force. When the moment for the creation of the protostars came, they disengaged themselves from the quantum vacuum and engaged in their creative role for the ‘building’ of the universe, always being in a state of continuous empathetic communication with the Unified Force of the universe.

Years passed and the moment the wondrous planet and the solar system to which it will belong, came. Then the Unified Force partitions in two parts: into Uranus and Gaia, as named by the Ancient Greeks. That separation was as if an erotic energy egg broke, initially creating chaos and erebus. In this Chaos and Erebus, Uranus and Gaia emerged as separate entities, but maintaining covalent, erotic bonds. Uranus remains in energy form and slowly transforms himself into ‘Blue Uranus’ while at the same time, the energy body of Gaia intermixes with the material forming planet earth, producing a single living entity with a unified inner-conscientious self-observeness. Onto that planet, the Unified Force, “Uranus” will send forth its hypercosmic seed which will unite with Gaia, making the appearance of life on Earth possible, much later. But at the same time, he will also send its supernatural titanic seeds from which the Titanic Supernatural Forces shall come, direct descendants of Uranus and Gaia. On the fluid surface of the Earth, the incarnated titanic forces work unceasingly, with the cooperation of “Gaia”, the Mother Earth, gradually separating land from water, while at the same time, they cultivate into the terrestrial chemical labs the hypercosmic ‘seeds’ from the original celestial material of the components of life’.

Since the start of its creation, up until 3.8 billion years ago, the Earth suffers relentless mass bombardments of celestial bodies, some of which certainly continued past that period and at a gradually decreasing rate until they became sporadic or almost nonexistent. It would seem that it was from those bombardments that water appeared on Earth, either trapped into those primordial celestial bodies3 falling onto the surface of proto-Earth, prior to the completion of the process of its creation, or from the fall of the celestial bodies after the completion of the planet and the solidification of the crust of the Earth, or most probably, a combination of both. Selection and drop of those particular carbon-carrying celestial bodies which included hydrogen isotopes (H),4 elements suggesting the presence of water, were taken up by Oceanus and his wife, Tethys. Later, the same couple undertook the creation of the oceans, and it was for that reason that control of the element of water was assigned to them when the victorious Titans were distributing realms of authority over their dominion.

With time, the thickness of the crust of the Earth gradually increased as the planet was cooling down. The climatic conditions on the surface of the earth started balancing themselves out, allowing the presence of water, despite the fact that temperatures were already considerably high just as it was the density of its atmosphere.

With the ending of those blessed bombardments of the Earth with extraterrestrial celestial bodies, Oceanus and Tethys programmed a series of repeated rainfalls, about 4.3 billion years ago, which will further cool down the surface and solidify the crust of the Earth. The first islands of concrete land emerged, some of which have survived till today, named cratons.5 Uranus and Gaia were proud of their children, the twelve titans along with the lesser titanic forces, which worked unceasingly, planning the completion of the planet. Thus, the Pre-Archean Eon6 passed on Earth through which Earth was initially divided into a small above the sea land mass and a large but shallow ocean, about 4 billion years ago. Its solid crust is still relatively very thin and the temperature in the mantle quite high. As a result, the transition between the one ending and the one beginning megaeons, about 3.85 billion of years ago, will find Earth shaken by horrific earthquakes, continuous restructurings of the mantle and the solid mass of the crust, breaking of the crust and flowing out of huge masses of burning lava. The solid mass of the Earth is ripped into large and small rifts, breaking into the tectonic or lithospheric plates on which the landmass of the planet would be based. The appearance of volcanoes is the next step that relieved the interior pressure and high temperatures existing under the solid mass of the earth. With that restructuring, the Pre-Archean Eon megaeon ends with the Titans having separated land from water.

The beginning of the Archean Eon7 finds the Titans towards the end of the completion of a fragile unified supercontinent and a great shallow, waveless panocean but with temperatures in the mantle falling and the depth of the earth’s crust becoming greater and more solid. The first Pancocean was initially shallow and occupied much greater part of the earth’s crust compared to the land, while the first supercontinent was much smaller than what the landmass is today. Possibly, it was the size of Australia that was adjusting in size, getting smaller or bigger according to the climatic conditions. But with the passage of geologic time, the oceans gradually deepened and their surface became smaller while the expanse of the continents increased continuously. Unequivocally, the emergence of new crust by volcanic and sedimentary processes contributed to the increase of the landmass.

On that first supercontinent which will later be named Vaalbara, the Cyclops would build Gaia’s’ palaces, about 3.3 billion years ago, and it would be there that the Blue Uranus would visit her at night to relax from the day’s toil. During that era, 3.85 billion years ago, planet Earth would be considered complete as far as its general structure was concerned, and so, three of the children of Gaia and Uranus, would completely take over the care for the well-functioning of the planet. For their job, which was quite difficult and demanding, they were given three Hekatoncheires8 to which they would be permanently bound ever since, but also additional titanic forces. All of them belonged to the Supernatural Forces. So Asterope, or Sterops was assigned with the care of the crust, having as his assistants Briareus; Argus was assigned with the care of the mantle with Kottus as his assistant and Brontes was assigned the care of the core, with Gyges as his helper. Indubitably, multiskilled as they were, the Cyclops had at times taken up other roles, such as the creation of weapons for the Titans, the building of Cronos’ palaces and the prison of Tartarus, and such like. But it was mainly Gaia that empathetically was assigning secret and subtle constructions to them, such as those of the White Crystal and the Diamond Sickle.

During those times, the primordial terrestrial atmosphere was not amenable to developed lifeforms but it was amenable to the creation of life. Thus, in the geysers and high temperatures and pressures, the process for the emergence of life commenced, about 3.8 billion years ago. In the earth’s chemical factories, the continuous chemical experimentations in the organic soup would produce a positive result, since the titanic forces managed to create the first prokaryotic cell. Life on earth was a fact!

Do to the movement of the lithospheric plates, two types of impact appear: between two continental chunks of crust and between two oceanic chunks of crusts. In general, there are three types of collisions among tectonic plates: the divergent movement according to which the two lithospheric plates get away from one another and new crust ‘emerges’, the convergent movement according to which the two lithospheric places approach each other, while one sinks below the other, and the lateral sliding movement, according to which the two lithospheric plates slide past each other sideways. In the case of the convergent movement, we have different effects, depending on the type of movement. If two tectonic plates converge, we have the phenomenon of orogeny. If the convergence occurs between two crusts one of which is oceanic, then we also have orogeny but also volcanic activity. It goes without saying that whenever the oceanic crusts diverge from each other, then new oceanic crust is created, while when they converge, the already existing oceanic crust is destroyed and recycled. The creation of new oceanic crust and the destruction of the old are more or less of equal quantity, thus creating the phenomenon of the recycling of the oceanic crusts, resulting in oceanic crusts that are all undoubtedly much younger than the continental crusts.9 The solid crust of the Earth becomes stabilized about 3.85 billion of years ago.

For all those tectonics of the lithospheric plates, it is necessary to secure a seamless cooperation of the three Cyclops and their three assistants who are mainly responsible for the care of planet Earth, who are of course aided by the titanic forces when it is required. But more than anything else, it would be Sterope’s cooperation that was needed, who was taking care of the solid crust, along with Argus, who was taking care of the mantle of the Earth. The combined efforts of those two would benefit the developmental course of the Earth with the continuous movement of the lithospheric plates which move the continental plates of the Earth, either diverging or converging among them, creating at times great supercontinents. The cycle of creation, breakup, dispersion and re-creation of the supercontinents due to the movement of the lithospheric plates completes every 450 to 500 million years. There are indications for the existence of older supercontinents such as Vaalbara, Ur, Kenorland, Columbia, Protopangea, Pannotia, and others, the oldest of which have not been yet absolutely determined, despite their theoretical existence. The calculation of the older supercontinents are based on the theoretical studies of the movements and the direction of the mantle and by extension, of its impact on the crust of the Earth, either the continent or the oceanic, but also on the dating of the older parts of the Earth under the name “cratons”.

Thus, the work of the Cyclops and the Hekatoncheires was arduous, since it was on it that the success of the projects of the Titans depended, as well as the course of planet Earth as well life itself that would appear a bit later. Certainly, the Cyclops, together with the Hekantocheires, had taken up responsibility of the general care of the Earth, so as to ensure the seamless functioning of a living organism. But for whatever project that had to do with the oceans, they had to cooperate also with the most powerful of the titans, the wide-chested Oceanus. Undoubtedly, similar cooperation should also be achieved with the whole leadership of the titanic powers. To achieve that, they were in continuous empathetic intercommunication with the four Titans that comprised the spatiotemporal continuum. Oceanus for the dimension of the width, Hyperion for the dimension of length, Iapetus for the dimension of height and Cronos, for the dimension of time. So, indubitably, they were taking direct orders from the four most powerful Titans.

At the same time, therefore, with the movement of the lithospheric plates and the adjustment of the morphology of the visible surface of the Earth, the Cyclops were also taking care of the morphology of the oceans, with the active participation of Oceanus and Tethys. Gradually, as the tectonic plates were moving, they were also break up, and so the original panocean also broke up into smaller panoceans. Such a breakup, about 650 million years ago involved the breakup of the Panocean into the Panthalassian and the Panafrican oceans. A bit later, about 500 million years ago, it would assume the form of the Panthalassian and the Iapetean ocean, while at the same time, the Baltics, Siberia and other parts of the Earth in the form of large or small islands started to ‘emerge’. When, about 300 million years ago, supercontinent Pangaea would be formed, then the ocean would also re-unite to form the Panthalassian Ocean, maintaining however on the eastern part of Pangaea a small, separate part, under the name of Sea of Tethys, dedicated to Tethys.

Following the completion of the oceans, Oceanus and Tethys had been tasked with exercising power over every liquid element on Earth, until Cronos, fearing the accumulated strength of the couple, started to usurp gradually parts of their power and transferring them to others, thus continually decreasing the couple’s strength. In the darkness of Cronos’ scared mind, Oceanus appeared potentially threatening, while in fact he was not. We remember of course that, initially, the leadership of the titanic forces had been given to Oceanus, being the most peace-loving and most prudent Titan, but also because he was beloved by every other Supernatural and Natural Forces. But Cronos, despite the fact that he had grown to be an autocratic, supreme power on planet Earth, he had also grown jealous of the prestige enjoyed by Oceanus. So, amongst his immediate plans was for Cronos to get a chance to break it down. A good such chance offered itself when Oceanus volunteered to partition a part of his power and assign it to his wife, Tethys. Thus, the separation into the Sea of Tethys and the Panocean took place, which lasted from the beginning of the Paleozoic Era10 until the end of the Mesozoic Era11 and expanded between the Eurasian and African continents. It took the name from the Greek ancient goddess Tethys, the wife of Oceanus. Today’s remnant of the Sea of Tethys is the Mediterranean and the Red Seas.

Throughout that great geological period, the Sea of Tethys had remained an oblong Sea that joined the two great terrestrial oceans. Under the supervision of the Cyclops and their helpers but also the directions of the Oceanus, that particular Sea was created with much loving care, and stood there for 500 million years. It went through many changes, while its form and limits shifted many times. Even at the time of Pangaea, the Sea of Tethys had been kept unaltered, even under a different shape, despite the fact that by then, all the oceans had united into the single Panthalassian Ocean. In that Sea and the limits set by the two continents, underwater troughs were formed, in which sediments were accumulated and it was from those that later the Alpine ranges were formed, such as the Pyrenees, the Dinaric Alps, the Pindos range, the Taurus Mountains, the Himalayas, and so on. Following the breakup of the Pangaea, the Sea of Tethys increased in volume and transformed itself into the ocean of Tethys, which was partitioned with the joining of the Eurasian and the African plates, and the appearance of India in South Asia, when it was further broken down into the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean. About 15 million years ago, we witness the formation of the Mediterranean Sea, which has already been isolated and truncated from the Indian Ocean. Having an almost round shape, with a rocky landmass in the form of islands or smaller rocky islets which would be continuously rising in its middle, they would eventually comprise the Italian and the Greek peninsulas and the Mediterranean Islands, but mainly, the Greek islands of the Aegean Sea.

On Pangaea, there was the ultimate effort to join the available landmass into one by the titanic forces. From then on, there will be a slow and continuous course followed towards the separation of the continents which will end, about 25 million years ago with Earth’s current landmass morphology, eventually reaching its current form.

About 12 million years ago, the titanic forces would clash in fierce struggles in the area of the central Mediterranean and as a result, they would cause ongoing geological restructurings in the wider area, including the whole area of the Balkan Peninsula. Large chunks of the landmass would submerge while new seas would emerge, rivers would form and huge lakes would remain cut off from the larger Mediterranean basin. All those would in their turn disappear to give way to the emergence of new landmass and new seas. The continuous alteration of positions and shapes between the marine and the continental elements occurred as a result of the titanic forces fighting in the area. Nothing would remain the same as everything would undergo a radical change.

Finally, about 2.58 million years, the last glaciers of the Pleistocene Epoch12 appeared which would last up until 20 thousand years ago and would set the beginning of the Holocene Epoch.13 Following the appearance of the last glaciers, modern human civilization would commence and progress at a great pace. But those titanic skirmishes would continue until the birth of Zeus and the domination of the Natural Powers, about 2 to 0.5 billion years ago, stabilizing the form of the sea, but not the relationship between the two, since great areas would continually be exchanged between the marine and the continental elements, to such a degree that the level of the sea would rise and fall at a rate of 200 meters on average. The skirmishes and restructuring would continue until about 50 thousand years, but by then, the landmass and the shape of the seas would have acquired their final form, and the results of such changes would have had an impact on lifeforms according to kind. Despite the destruction caused by the geological battles of the titans, Natural Forces would manage to dominate and impose a pan-terrestrial peace that would follow natural law.