A Mother’s Work – Sunday Photo Fiction

A Mother’s Work

Life had gone on with much difficulty for the goddess, Gaea. The goddess of Earth endured many tribulations. At last, her grandson, Zeus had released her son Kronos. The bitter spat between father and son finally ceased and Kronos now oversaw the blessed dead in Elysium.

Finally, she could relax.

She finished trimming the fruit trees which grew upon her skin of soil and stone. The rather dense jungle growing between her legs needed trimming too, but she planned to leave that for later. Packs of wolves chased bison across one thigh, and prides of lions pursued zebra across the other. She watched them idly in her cool castle of white limestone, rose quartz, gold, and Lapis Lazuli.

She looked out the window…and groaned.

More troubles.

Mortals were her children as well. They were rather weak—for the moment—and needed continual protection from her grand-children, the Olympians.

“Poseidon!” she called. “Poseidon, come here my grandson.”

“I’m here, YiaYia,” said Poseidon, dragging his favorite trident behind him. It was still too big, but he would grow into it.

“Perchance, were you taking a bath?”

“Yes, YiaYia. You said it was important. I like taking baths.”

“That’s good but…”

“Hades doesn’t like baths.”

Gaea rolled her eyes. “I’m painfully aware of that, but…”

“He stinks of decay!”

“Yes, but I want to know something, young god!”

“Yes, YiaYia?”

She pointed out the window at the mortals facing disaster in their blue raincoats. “When you took your bath, did you leave the water running?”
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Author’s Notes:

Gaea: http://www.theoi.com/Protogenos/Gaia.html
Kronos, father of Zeus: http://www.theoi.com/Titan/TitanKronos.html
YiaYia = “Grandmother” in Greek. https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070612204029AAboYMc

Each Sunday it’s time for Sunday Photo Fiction. Joe owens has taken over for founder Alistair Forbes while Alistair pursues his dreams. This week’s photo prompt is a fabulous pic from Joe Owens and the splash image for this post. Look here for more stories based upon the photo above: https://sundayphotofictioner.wordpress.com/2015/03/15/sunday-photo-fiction-march-15-2015/