What does 「父なる砂漠」mean? There is a line in the , which is a song of ZARD (Sakai Izumi): > I don't understand the meaning of . It's quite strange to think of it as the desert that has been a father... Thank you very much.

As sawa suggested, (which literally means “the earth which is a mother”) is a fixed phrase to refer to Mother Earth, a common personification of the earth. Just to clarify, is not a common phrase, but it clearly builds on top of the phrase . The phrase may be an invention by the writer of the song.

Interpretation of song lyrics is a delicate art, and I will not try to do it here.