Ground (Terran myth)

Ground is a character in the Proto-Terran Mythology and its descendant religions. He is the god of the Earth itself and the ancestral father of all spiders.

Origin
In the basic gender trinary of early Terran culture, Ground was the Virile counterpart to Sky's Vital and Moon's Pliant. Forests, the basic habitat of salticid life, were conceived of as hair growing from Ground's body, with his body being the literal Earth itself. This established and reinforced the Virile gender as being below the other two, but ultimately necessary for life.

Interpretations
As a Virile, Ground was rarely conceived of as an agent in the events of the world's creation, but instead a prize that the Vital and Pliant characters of Sky and Moon fought over. He was valued for his sexual contribution of sperm, which was viewed as Sky's reward for courting him.