Thanatology Work: For Water Connected to Death
For the FVP
Thanatology Work:
For Water
Connected to
Death
Water
as
an
Explicit
Death
Element
by Goura Fotadar
Date: 10.02.15 –10.13.15
From Reference “DRINKING WATER” by James Salzman
(P. 31 , Chapter 1: “The Fountain of Youth”)
under an image:
” Special waters can do more than restore health or reverse aging. In Norse and Irish mythology, drinking water provides wisdom. The Norse god Odin, for example, sought to drink from the sacred spring that flowed beneath the roots of the world tree, Yggdrasil. So eager was he for just one sip, he offered to sacrifice an eye to the giant guard Mimir. The exchange made good, with gulp Odin gained eternal wisdom. Finn, the hero of Irish legend, gained his wisdom from water, as well. Rather than drink the water, though, he ate the Salmon of Knowledge, which had gained its wisdom from swimming in the waters of a magic well.
There is a Chinese variant of this tale involving the noted philosopher Huai-Zan Tzu. It is said that in 122 BC he discovered how to distill the elixir of life. Upon drinking it, he was carried up to heaven. While ascending, he dropped his flask and spilled the waters. When his curious dogs and chickens drank from the magical puddle, they ascended to heaven as well.”
P. 94
“Improved sanitation and the provision of readily available safe drinking water both gradually became explicit government priorities, and the results proved impressive. In 1852, the average age of death in the English town of Dudley had been a shocking seventeen years old. Twenty years after sewers were constructed there, life expectancy had almost doubled. Similarly, from 1850 to 1900, life expectancy in French cities from thirty-two to forty-five years old. Medical advances clearly contribute to this increased longevity, but the Great Sanitation Awakening seems an apt title for such stinking results.”
10.05.15
It’s interesting to hear about how water
was viewed, in the conditions, and living among them, in this drought. In terms of Death, especially; and in relation to it; how water used to be viewed as having abilities special-enough (water as holy) to grant, thing, such as:
(1) “Wisdom”
(2) health restoration
(3) and youth.
Perhaps even more interesting , in the same book, but at /in a different location (p. 94 as quoted) is the fact that water connected with “sanitation” of poor quality is/are the very cause of short life.
These quoted passages with the study of thanatology, make think as if
it weren’t already obvious that water were connected to life/death.
With the horrid drought that’s been happening in California, and with what seem to me like a few acts of domestic & supernatural terrorism; I can’t help but become more aware of water as connected to or more like an element of Death/Life. In other words, I’m thinking that water the element, which about to look up in terms of Death (terms); is a quintessential Death, and thus,
Life being.
Not to get too supernatural conspiracy-related, but this issues we’re having with water uh is bringing to uh the front of my mind, like that I obviously do, need to point out that perhaps the drought (esp. if you’re connected to connected to Cali), is requiring (with the combinations of terror) me and I hope all of us to ponder our own mortality.
Also, I wonder if enough of us have thought more about not only our owned deaths; right, my fascination with death, leads me to think of it as an event for each of us that we should look forward to, and not just earn. Anyway, I wonder if enough of us have thought about how to become one that works toward being able to overcome death.
Having looked up water in “Encyclopedia of The End” by Deborah Noyes:
(p. 134)
“WATER
Water is often associated with death, purity, and cleansing.
…
The soul, itself a reflection (of the body, which is why ghosts often appear as the physical body did in life), is ‘captured’ by being reflected
in water.”
My suspicions of water being an element connected to death are confirmed from finding the above quote.
This has inspired me to (right) a spell, having long been fed – up with the soul, and representing this experience spell in my fiction.
Soul of Bondage, Enslavement, and All Horribles in General and Specific. De-Construct Yourself & Create A Replacement of Above Superiors!
10.06.15
Fiction Quote(s) Coming On Up While-St. Working On this Essay: (Yeah but you’re more alive dead, than
you were before dead.)
When you leave:
awake – moving
after you died.
What you saw
What you found out
What you became
how you became
better than,
instead of
dying … like being
dead.
Grieving as a regular process.
While working on this portion of the project, The Death Project, and being a grief oriented person, anyway: Just in plain ol’ nature or something, I’ve realized in case it weren’t already obvious or something that grieving like daily hopefully you know for what, but even if you don’t, is a like good thing. Perhaps it’s my obsession with death, or just some ol’ other reason. Still, I find it to be a highly effective and transcendent experience; the grieving I mean, as a regular process.
10.10.15
p. 97 from “DRINKING WATER”
“This is not to say, however, that drinking water diseases were a thing of the past. Far from it. Typhoid fever still claimed thousands every year, including the famed aviation brother Wilbur Wright, who died in 1912. Indeed, it was just such concerns over drinking water that spurred the trips of wealthy Europeans to spas and the first boom in bottled water sales. Ensuring source protection was a limited solution. To take the next big step in ensuring the safety of drinking water, municipalities turned to an approach that had always been part of the drinking water story: treatment.”
Now there’s an example of water’s ability to cause not only death, but a death-like state of sicknesses; and perhaps it’s only because the quoted material is from a reference text that focuses on water-related connected to … health concern; even still, the power that water has to influence life states / death
are near terrifying. In addition, based on this above quote, income seems to influence your ability to live; which of course is obvious, (through water on another method); as in of course better services; but because, in my opinion and/or what might otherwise be obvious Death is enormously spiritual; and it seems or is possibly highly ironic that money, in this World, alone (?) might stave off or better put: control the spiritual.
10.12.15 – 10.13.15
From, “STORIES IN STONE”
by DOUGLAS KEISTER
P. 72
” … and dogs brought the dead across the ‘Ninefold River’ to the underworld; …”
Random other thoughts/fiction :
You’re
not
gonna
die.
I’m not mortal.
What does that
mean.
It means
I can save
your life.
Maybe
it’s because
You’re too
Up-Tight.
About
Goura
Fotadar.
good,
I reached
my agenda
for today:
It’s still
within
the 24-hour
period, it’s
not a loss,
it’s a
win.
Referenced Texts / Reference Material:
DRINKING WATER
a history
JAMES SALZMAN
Copyright 2012
ENCYCLOPEDIA of The End
MYSTERIOUS DEATH IN FACT, FANCY, FOLKLORE,
AND MORE
by Deborah Noyes
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
BOSTON 2008
STORIES in STONE
A Field Guide to Cemetery
Symbolism and Iconography
Written and photographed by
DOUGLAS KEISTER
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