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Sacred Waters - A Cross-Cultural Compendium of Hallowed Springs and Holy Wells (Paperback)
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Sacred Waters - A Cross-Cultural Compendium of Hallowed Springs and Holy Wells (Paperback)
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Describing sacred waters and their associated traditions in over
thirty countries and across multiple time periods, this book
identifies patterns in panhuman hydrolatry. Supplying life's most
basic daily need, freshwater sources were likely the earliest
sacred sites, and the first protected and contested resource.
Guarded by taboos, rites and supermundane forces, freshwater
sources have also been considered thresholds to otherworlds. Often
associated also with venerated stones, trees and healing flora,
sacred water sources are sites of biocultural diversity. Addressing
themes that will shape future water research, this volume examines
cultural perceptions of water's sacrality that can be employed to
foster resilient human-environmental relationships in the growing
water crises of the twenty-first century. The work combines
perspectives from anthropology, archaeology, classics, folklore,
geography, geology, history, literature and religious studies.
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