A World Mother is a personification of the Body of All Life on a world. We often give the World Mother the Greek name for the World in question, if it had one. Hence, [[Gaia]] and [[Ares]]. Often World Mothers are depicted as pregnant women with their worlds as their pregnant bellies. But in exploring the metaphor the SolSeed movement has created some additional conventions many of which are based on Oberon Zell's Millenium Gaia statue.
=Anatomy of a World Mother=
World Mothers are female and generally do not wear clothing although for literary effect they may wear clothing in some stories. They are usually blue-green in colour although that may vary for literary effect also. Their bodies are covered in tattoos of the life forms that make them up and their hair is made up of branches, leaves, stalks, stems, vines and fronds of the plants that make them up. Their legs are usually blue and the tattoos on their legs represent sea creatures who are currently part of them. Their torsos are generally green with tattoos of the land animals that make them up. Their arms are also green with tattoos of the plants that make them up. Their bellies are the actual worlds that make them up but will be flat maps when they are young and only become rounded and pregnant when they are older.
=Life Cycle of a World Mother=
World Mothers begin as children in a [[Gaia and the Stellar Lottery|vast dark landscape]] which is a metaphor for the universe. At this point they have no tattoos or hair because there are no living beings that make them up. They are world mothers in potentia.
When they become associated with a world they generally begin with only a few tattoos, those of the first species to come into being (usually bacteria) or the first species to colonize them (usually intelligent technological species and their client species).
So we imagine that a World Mother begins as a child.