juamei wrote: The Sea Cat wrote: Resonox wrote: tjj wrote: Not hard to see why clean, clear springs were held in such reverence by our ancestors.
Would our ancestors not perhaps have used streams to wash away their own effluence??? So perhaps they would've been regarded as "sacred" as a cleanser as much as the other uses for water(already mentioned).
I think they would have differentiated between sacred wells/springs etc. and water sources for practical uses.
Unless they were considered sacred since they carried human waste away...
The Celts saw water as the entrance to the Other World. Hence the Danube being named after the Celtic Goddess Danu, for example.
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