In my experience, Gaia doesn’t collaborate with dark forces. There are some gods who will do that at the drop of a hat, but that questionable habit will usually jump out when reviewing the myths about them. Obviously, Gaia is a chthonic deity, well within the infrared/yin spectrum; however, she is a balanced and balancing expression of yin, very different from some of the more troubling of the chthonic energies.
So many mythologies place all the chthonic powers of hell deep inside the earth that Gaia can come across as being hellish herself. She’s not though. If anything, she’s more the gatekeeper, keeping all those chthonic forces underneath her from imbalancing the world by surging up all unrestrained. Were she weakened, more of those forces could then escape to wreak havoc, but she’s not going to call them up herself. That would go against her nature, and, given that she IS nature, that would pretty much be the universe going against itself.
On the other hand, Gaia in her divine balance is perfectly willing to work with other balancing forces, such as Karma. The resource guzzling PMC-class has had some rather interesting karma coming its way for a very long time now. Maybe Gaia just thought it was high time for them to enjoy the fruits of the harvest they had so enthusiastically sown behind themselves with nary a thought for the consequences. I rather doubt that it would have taken much arm-twisting to get Karma to go along with her, if Gaia did decide the time for harvesting was ripe.
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Date: 2023-06-15 04:48 am (UTC)So many mythologies place all the chthonic powers of hell deep inside the earth that Gaia can come across as being hellish herself. She’s not though. If anything, she’s more the gatekeeper, keeping all those chthonic forces underneath her from imbalancing the world by surging up all unrestrained. Were she weakened, more of those forces could then escape to wreak havoc, but she’s not going to call them up herself. That would go against her nature, and, given that she IS nature, that would pretty much be the universe going against itself.
On the other hand, Gaia in her divine balance is perfectly willing to work with other balancing forces, such as Karma. The resource guzzling PMC-class has had some rather interesting karma coming its way for a very long time now. Maybe Gaia just thought it was high time for them to enjoy the fruits of the harvest they had so enthusiastically sown behind themselves with nary a thought for the consequences. I rather doubt that it would have taken much arm-twisting to get Karma to go along with her, if Gaia did decide the time for harvesting was ripe.
— Christophe