Chapter 64: The Gift
Near the Delphic Great Plains, the dwelling place of Mother Earth.
The brilliance gradually faded away, the miraculous signs of divine birth dissipated into the air, yet the changes occurring within Gaia had not stopped.
As Demeter came into the world, the power of Mother Earth, which had been slowly recovering to its former state, plummeted once more, and her forty-something appearance aged a few years again. From the outside, it seemed she had returned to how she looked thousands of years ago.
Her hair color became somewhat dry, her green skirt began to fade to yellow, and, expectedly, this time, it would not return to its original state.
After all, the vitality of all things is but a skirt draped over the earth, just as the secret shroud over Mother Night. Now that she had lost this part of her godhood, the chain reaction manifested first in the anthropomorphic image of the deity.