Erdgeist, the Spirit of the Earth, represented in Goethe's “Faust” as assiduously weaving, at the Time-Loom, night and day, in death as well as life, the earthly vesture of the Eternal, and thereby revealing the Invisible to mortal eyes.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Ercilla y Zuñiga * Erdmann