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Understood by all peoples as essential to life, the remarkable property of water is that it may be found in any one of three forms: liquid, gas, and solid. Radical physical transformation, however, does not alter the nature of the "elemental water." In this chapter, we will consider representative creation myths from the Sumero-Babylonians, and Iceland. MesopotamiaOne of the most ancient cosmogonies comes out of Iceland
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in the Enuma Elish. Here is the narrative of
the great birthing waters: the Salt , the Sweet, the
Ground Mist which in the later Hebrew Genesis are
called tehom - the deep.
The "H" rune is
called hagal and represents the "hail-egg"
the mote of dust around which forms the ball of ice.
The people of the North perceive a creation of fire
and ice - of emanation and formation. This version is
from the Voluspa, an Icelandic saga written
in the ninth or tenth century.