{"id":6337,"date":"2018-07-20T15:26:45","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T10:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/?p=6337"},"modified":"2018-07-22T15:34:12","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T10:34:12","slug":"sacred-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/?p=6337","title":{"rendered":"Sacred Waters"},"content":{"rendered":"

If I were called in \/ To construct a religion \/ I should make use of water, wrote the English poet Philip Larkin in 1954\u2014and most religions do.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Waters, religious historian Mircea Eliade explained in the 1950s, are \u201cspring and origin, the reservoir of all the possibilities of existence; they precede every form and support every creation.\u201d So it has been since human history began and, by legend, before. The world, Genesis says, was brought to life by a God who created a \u201cfirmament in the midst of the waters.\u201d<\/p>\n

Babylonians believed in a world made from a commingling of fresh and salt water. Pima Indians have said Mother Earth was impregnated by a drop of water. The cataclysmic flood that destroys a civilization is also an aqueous archetype and part of Hebrew, Greek, and Aztec cultures.<\/p>\n

The body thirsts. So does the spirit. \u201cI must live near a lake,\u201d wrote Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, who waded into the depths of the psyche and equated water with the unconscious. \u201cWithout water, I thought, nobody could live at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

From our worldly entrance in a burst of amniotic fluid to the ritual washing of the dead (taharah in Judaism;\u00a0ghusl al-mayyit\u00a0in Islam), water flows through our lives, scribing a line between sacred and profane, life and death. We are doused, dunked, dipped, sprinkled\u2014and blessings flow, deep and wide as the River Jordan of Scripture, wondrous as the spring at Lourdes, cathartic as tears.<\/p>\n

Sources:\u00a0https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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