Waters
idea · 2 works · 7 mentions · 15 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Waters the group · Waters the deity · Waters the object
the waters · waters · living waters · the Waters · the divine Waters · the divine waters
in the texts
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
The Waters (Āpaḥ), a personified cosmological force, appear as an object of ritual attention, as controlled by the Maruts, and as a source of blessing.
Auspicious be the waters for the calves;
may we smite the Dasyus and be awake to the waters.
Who carry waters from the ocean up to the sky, and who release them from the sky onto the earth;
Adversus Hermogenem
The primordial waters over which the Spirit was borne.
But the appurtenances of heaven and earth would then first have been darkness and abyss and Spirit and waters.
but invisible, as being still covered with waters, as it were with the protection of generative moisture, by which form even our kindred flesh too is produced.
Yet by separately defining darkness, abyss, Spirit of God, waters, the relation, so distinct, of certain and distinguished elements, makes us reckon nothing confused, nor uncertain in confusion.