Water Beings
Looking to the vast human history of water worship, a crucial study of our broken relationship with all things aquatic--and how we might mend it.Early human relationships with water were expressed through beliefs in serpentine aquatic deities: rainbow-colored, feathered or horned… Celý popis ↓
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Water Beings
Looking to the vast human history of water worship, a crucial study of our broken relationship with all things aquatic--and how we might mend it.Early human relationships with water were expressed through beliefs in serpentine aquatic deities: rainbow-colored, feathered or horned serpents, giant anacondas, and dragons. Worshipped and appeased, they embodied people's respect for water and its vital role in sustaining all living things. Representing the powers of water, these beings were bringers of life and sustenance, world creators, ancestors, guardian spirits, and lawmakers.
This major study of water beings and what has happened to them in different cultural and historical contexts demonstrates how and why some--but not Yet today, though we still recognize that "water is life," fresh- and saltwater ecosystems have been critically compromised by human activities.
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