The atom and mother earth are two fundamental elements in the study and understanding of nature and the universe.

The atom is the smallest unit of a chemical element, composed of a central nucleus made up of protons and neutrons, surrounded by orbiting electrons. This basic structure of the atom is essential to understanding the composition and properties of matter.

On the other hand, mother earth or the Earth as a planet is our home, it is where we live and find all the necessary conditions for life. It is a complex system composed of chemical elements, atmospheric gases, water, soil and biodiversity. Earth is an integral part of the solar system and is interconnected with other planets and celestial bodies.

The relationship between the atom and mother earth lies in the fact that the matter that forms the earth is composed of atoms. The different atoms are joined together through chemical bonds to form molecules and compounds that give rise to the chemical elements present in nature. These chemical elements are essential for all forms of life, including human beings.

Furthermore, mother earth is also influenced by the interaction of subatomic particles such as neutrinos, photons and other elements at the microscopic level. Nuclear reactions and physical processes on Earth are also related to the properties of atoms and their interactions.

In summary, the atom and mother earth are intrinsically related in the composition and functioning of nature. The study of the structure and properties of atoms is essential to understand the formation and evolution of the Earth, as well as to understand the chemical and physical processes that occur on our planet.

Amalur

Amalur is the atom, it is the smallest part of matter that has properties of a chemical element. Each atom is made up of a nucleus and one or more electrons attached to the nucleus. Electrons in an atom are attracted to protons in an atomic nucleus by the electromagnetic force. The protons and neutrons in the nucleus are attracted to each other by a different force, the nuclear force, which is generally stronger than the electromagnetic force that repels positively charged protons from each other. Under certain circumstances, more pronounced the greater the number of protons the atom has, the repellent electromagnetic force becomes stronger than the nuclear force and the nucleons can be expelled or discarded from the nucleus, leaving behind a different element: nuclear disintegration that results in nuclear transmutation.

In the legends of the Basque people, the Earth, Ama-Lurra, is the main divinity. The Earth is shown as the habitat of all living beings, possessing its own vital force that has created our natural environment. The Earth is a huge vessel, an unlimited receptacle, where the souls of the deceased and most mythological characters live. The faith in Ama-Lurra is very old in the Basque people, prior to the invasion of the Indo-European peoples. The archetype of the matriarchal goddess and the symbolic structure of the female image of Basque mythology, ritual, art and creation. The fine creative sensitivity that characterizes every work, converted into a reference for contemporary Basque culture of the Mother Goddess (Amalur) and her omnipotent character, represented as the spider divinity that weaves the universal network of the cosmos.

The Amalur sculpture connects the world of science and the world of art.

Stone and wrought iron spheres in the sculpture of the hypothesis of the universe as Mother Earth. An ecological review of Nature in its symbolic image as a creative capacity where creativity as a matriarchal-feminine attribute, in contact with existence that will finally open the limit stage of the Spirit as a horizon of transcendent meaning. The feminist movement and its fight for liberation through emancipation acquires special relevance in this sculptural production that reflects the reality of the creative archetype that matriarchally explores the world of the maternal body, whose psychological reality symbolically embodies a woman, an interesting mystical worldview of the archetype of the Mother Goddess (Amalur) for the artistic-cultural mediation of the Basque people.

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