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  1. See Apollodorus (1921 edition) and Thomas Taylor (1792) in which Metis is located as part of the tripartite deity Phanes, Metis, Erikapaios/Protogonus. She reappears later as Olympian Zeus’ wife. See also Jane Ellen Harrison (1903 [1961]).

  2. See Sándor Ferenczi (1933 [1955]) in which he posits that lack of tenderness and full maternal care in the nursery often results in the ‘wise baby’ syndrome in which the child is forced by circumstance to maturity and wisdom beyond its years, i.e. Athena.

  3. See Luce Irigaray (1992), Julia Kristeva (1974), Elizabeth Grosz (1995) and Pamela Sue Anderson (1997) on the re-figuration of the chora contrary to Plato's Timeaus in which the chora is signified as an empty receptacle waiting to be filled with phallic intention.

  4. George Lamaître coined the term the Big Bang in 1927.

  5. Anna Gibbs and Shé Hawke (2008) extrapolate on Elaine Morgan's (1979) disruption of Darwin's masculine bias and terra-centric oversights in her book The Descent of Woman.

  6. Or ask any surfer or mariner.

  7. In this century children are still born with webbed feet (syndactyly), arguably an archaic residue of water habitat. Ernst Haeckel did not favour teleology and mysticism, proffering instead that, ‘ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny’. See Gibbs and Hawke (2008: 45). See also the Moken People/Sea Gypsies. http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2005/04/sea-gypsies/ivanoff-text/2, last accessed 21 November 2012

  8. In Italian, Terra dell’ acqua refers loosely to the world's water wars, while l’ appassionata dell’ acqua refers to a passion for water in all its forms.

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Acknowledgements

The author wishes to thank Leonie Jackson, Anna Gibbs and Clifton Evers for their enduring interest in this work and Elspeth Probyn for generous research supervision.

This paper has not been published elsewhere, nor has it been submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere. Some of the haiku have appeared previously in poetic publications, and the artwork in exhibitions.

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Hawke, S., Jackson, L. aquamater: a genealogy of water. Fem Rev 103, 120–132 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1057/fr.2012.29

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