![]() Given the great variation of religious waters throughout history where even the same water may attain different qualities and divine embodiments, divine waters define structuring practices and principles in ecology and cosmology. ![]() Issar and a great selection of related books. Religious water may heal and bless individuals and be a communal source for fertility and plentiful harvests, but may also work as a penalty, wreaking havoc on society as floods or the absence of the life-giving rains in agricultural communities. Water Shall Flow from the Rock by Arie S. All these variations create different dependencies not only to ecological factors but more importantly to divine actors. Rivers, rain, lakes, springs, and waterfalls are some specific forms of religious water, which also relate to seasonality and changing hydrological cycles. ![]() The ways various divinities invest waters with specific qualities and capacities depend upon a wide range of ecological, theological, and eschatological factors some are shaped by the environment while others are purely ontological and concerned with otherworldly realms, and often there is an intimate relation between the mundane and the divine. There are many different and distinct types of religious waters: holy, sacred, neutral, and even evil. ![]()
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