GODS & GODDESSES OF EARTH

There is no system within Norse mythology with five elements, rather they are personified as gods & goddesses.

Jörð is Mother Earth, goddess of the wilderness & primitive Earth, the hills & land, healing herbs, Bees & grandmothers, the natural features that resemble a woman. She is lover of Odin & mother of Thor. In Old Norse Mythology the god Odin’s relationships were a bit messy & he wasn't much into monogamy. His firstborn son, Thor, was the result of a relationship with Jörð, rather than his wife, Frigg. There are references to Jörð as Thor’s mother in the Prose Edda’s books Gylfaginning & Skáldskaparmál.
Jörð is of jötunn descent, an elder giant race. We walk upon her, live in a dwelling constructed of her, she is inescapable, immanent, all around. Jörð can be invoked for help in finding & accessing healing herbs, in activating their maximum potential.

Sif is a Norse goddess of plants, homes & family hearth, abundant agricultural yields & Autumn. Sif’s association with fertility is reinforced in the Prose Edda when she’s referred to as the fair giver of wealth, emphasizing her role as a bestower of abundance & prosperity. As a goddess of fertility, Sif represents the vital energy that brings forth new life & sustains the cycles of growth, the connection to Earth. Her presence brings hope, abundance & the assurance of a prosperous future for the community she protects.
The wife of Thor.

In Norse mythology, Aurgelmir, a frost giant, is the first being from which the world was created & all the Æsir gods descended, also he is not technically a Norse god himself.. He is also the ancestor of all Vikings. The Poetic Edda refer to Aurgelmir as a primeval being who was born from venom that dripped from the icy rivers called the Élivágar & lived in the grassless void of Ginnungagap. He was the father of all the giants; the first man & woman were formed from the sweat under his arms & his legs produced a six-headed son. A cow, Audumla, nourished him with her milk. Audumla was herself nourished by licking salty, rime-covered stones. She licked the stones into the shape of a man, Búri- the first god was born, who became the grandfather of the great god Odin & his brothers. The grandsons of Búri, the gods Odin, Vili & Vé later killed Aurgelmir & his gigantic body was broken up for scrap, they fashioned the Earth, Jörð, from his flesh, his blood became the ocean, stones were fashioned from his teeth, from his hair the trees, the sky from his skull & clouds from his brain, his bones became the mountains. Four dwarfs held up his skull. His eyebrows became the fence surrounding Midgard, or Middle Earth, the world of men.

In Norse mythology, Earth is a realm in & of itself, known as Midgard, located at the center of one of the nine worlds; Manheimr, the home of a man.

The Egyptian god Geb is the god of the Earth, the embodiment of nature itself & everything that exists on Earth. Lord of all solid bodies, with unlimited power & authority over all living beings on Earth.. Son of Shu & Tefnut, husband & brother of the sky goddess Nut, father of Osiris, Set, Isis, Nephthys & in some sources Sekhmet.. Geb & Nut together formed a permanent boundary between the primeval waters & the newly created world.
Geb was often feared as the father of Snakes. He protects the living & the dead from Snakes living in the ground, he carries plants that grow on his back & water, the Nile, flows out of him. The ceremonies dedicated to Geb were held to increase the yield & fertility of the land, rites related to the birth & protection of infants. It was believed that Geb's laughter caused earthquakes & that it allowed crops to grow.
Geb was also associated with the realm of the dead, the deceased entered the gates of Geb on the way to the afterlife. In a number of myths, Geb serves as a judge, taking part in the trial of the dead & serving as an arbitrator in the struggle of Osiris & Set.
Geb was depicted lying down & leaning on his elbow: the bent knee represented mountains, the body represented valleys, sometimes as a man with the head of a Snake or with Goose on his head. In later times, he may also have been depicted as a Ram, Bull or Crocodile.
Geb was seen as the personification of a fertile land & a barren desert.
Geb never got his own temple.

Tatenen, the god of Earth & time, owns the minerals & plants, the deep regions beneath the Earth from which everything emerges.
Tatenen created the whole world, gods & people, provided the Pharaohs with a long life.
Tatenen was born the moment the primeval mound, Benben, rose from the waters of chaos & created everything in his heart & gave names. Tatenen’s father was the creator god Khnum, who made him on his potter’s wheel of Nile mud at the moment of creation of Earth. It is believed that it was Tatenen who pushed the serpent Apophis away from the Primeval Mound with his staff. Tatenen symbolizes the emergence of silt from the fertile Nile after the waters of the inundation recede.
Tatenen personified Egypt due to his associations with rebirth & the Nile & was an aspect of the earth-god Geb, as assisting the dead in their journey to the afterlife.
The god Tatenen was depicted in human form, sometimes with green skin emphasizing his connection with fertility & plants, with a Pharaoh's beard & a double sultan on his head, or in a white crown with two Ostrich feathers called atef. Tatenen also wore a pair of Ram horns surmounted by a Sun disk & two tall feathers. As a Chthonic deity, he was also depicted with two Snakes on his head. He also had a magic mace dedicated to the Falcon, revered as The Great White Creator of the Earth.

Aker is one of the oldest deities of the Egyptians representing the Earth. Connecting today & tomorrow, god of the Underworld, patron of Snakes, protector of people.
Aker was connected to the horizon of the North & West, forming a mythological bridge between the two horizons with his body.
Aker was first described as one of the Earth gods guarding The Gate To That Place. He protected the deceased king from the three demonic snakes Hemtet, Ikeru & Yagv by burying him & sealing him from the poisonous breath of the Snake demons. Another Earth deity who joined in was Geb.
Aker protects the Sun God during his nocturnal journeys through the caverns of the underworld. In the Book of the Dead, Aker also gives birth to the god Khepri, a young rising Sun in the form of a Scarab Beetle, after Aker has safely carried the sarcophagus of Khepri through the caverns of the underworld.
For the first time, Aker was depicted as the body of a reclining Lion with his mouth wide open.
He was also depicted as a narrow strip of country with the head of a man or a Lion at the end.
Later, he was depicted as two reclining Lions fused together & still looking at each other.
Beginning in the Middle Kingdom, Aker appears as a pair of twin Lions, one named Duaj, yesterday, & the other Sefer, tomorrow. When depicted as a pair of Lions, the hieroglyphic sign horizon, the two connected mountains, & the Sun Disk were placed between the Lions who sat back to back.
In later times, the Aker may also look like two joined Sphinxes with human heads.
Sometimes Aker was depicted as a Snake. He was considered the patron saint of these animals. The Egyptians believed that Aker could protect against snakebite.