Megalodon's Book Journey

I find it interesting how Damaya refers to it as Father Earth, when, as far as I understand, the earth in their universe never truly settles and is always in motion, constantly wreaking havoc.

“Here is the Stillness, which is not still even on a good day. Now it ripples, reverberates, in cataclysm.”

Before this, I had always seen the general public associate the earth with femininity, hence the term Mother Nature. Even in my own culture, we regard the earth as a mother, because it gives birth to life.

It makes me wonder whether they call it Father Earth because their earth is never gentle to them, unlike the way a mother is often imagined to be. As stated in the prologue:

“…are hard to keep alive when the earth keeps trying to eat them…”

Or perhaps this choice of words is connected to the male figure introduced in the prologue 🤔