The Best of Wishes,
for Manna from Heaven,
for one and all,
in Twenty-Eleven!
I send these wishes out at the New Year of the Georgian Calendar, but the significance of water to all life on Earth is well known and celebrated, albeit at different dates, by different cultures and peoples.
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| Thales (~650 B.C.) |
Water's purification and cleansing properties are celebrated by all religions in their own individual ways.
Water also figures prominently in each of our myths of creation. Many traditions begin with the Earth being retrieved from an ocean or all living creatures surviving a flood .
One philosopher (Thales, around 650 BC) even believed that all matter could be traced back to a single substance that, he opined, was water.
Making sense of the unknown through something intimately familiar is an art we even practice today. In years past, the most familiar entity to everyone was WATER!
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