There are so many uses for and ways of using water. Such is the vastness of water’s image and imaginary. It is Earth’s eye, looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature… Nothing so fair, so pure, and at the same time so large, as a lake. Lying between the earth and the heavens, it partakes of the color of both. Henry David Thoreau, for instance, described Walden, the lake around which his utopian manifesto of life away from the voracity of civilization is organized, as “blue at one time and green at another, even from the same point of view. On the contrary, fresh water, the moving waters of rivers and streams, the crystal-clear waters of lakes, the freshness of springs, are sources of life, abundance, and pleasure for the senses. The unbridled vigor of the stormy sea is nothing but the breath of this pent-up fury, the great chaos, the cosmic tumult that inhabits the depths and blackness of this liquid mass, the monsters that devour ships. The sea is the memory of the flood, of the tremendous punishment of the gods that destroyed everything under the abyss of the waters that fell from the heavens. There was no sea in the delights of the garden of Eden. Holding unfathomable mysteries and infinite spaces, the sea is a shapeless mass that is permanently agitated in the fury of waves, in shipwrecks, in the uneasy calm, the still air, the constant sparkle of the sun scorching in the slightest disturbance of the water’s surface. In founding mythologies of the world, water can be the beginning or the destruction of everything fertility and creation everything that existed before the ashes.
Water quenched thirst, but it also healed wounds, exorcized evil spirits, moved mills, and made bread.
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This is why many bottles full of this water are taken, and children are dipped in it, and in this case the shirts of the sick should be thrown into the water.īefore science and technology could colonize modern thought with their rationalities and abstractions, there were no clear boundaries between the different ways that things existed and what could explain them. The pilgrims believe that the water from the sulphureous springs there, collected on the 24th, before the sun sets, is an antidote to actual or possible diseases. Bartholomew, where an annual pilgrimage takes place on the 23rd and 24th of August. On the bank of the Tamega river, alongside the Cavez bridge, there is an old chapel of St.
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