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Sina and the Eel is a myth of origins in Samoan mythology, which explains the origins of the first coconut tree. [1] In the Samoan language the legend is called Sina ma le Tuna. Tuna is the Samoan word for 'eel'. [2] The story is also well known throughout Polynesia including Tonga, Fiji and Māori in New Zealand. [3]
Water god in an ancient Roman mosaic. Zeugma Mosaic Museum, Gaziantep, Turkey. A water deity is a deity in mythology associated with water or various bodies of water.Water deities are common in mythology and were usually more important among civilizations in which the sea or ocean, or a great river was more important.
The Gospel of the Eels: A Father, a Son and the World's Most Enigmatic Fish (Swedish: Ålevangeliet: Berättelsen om världens mest gåtfulla fisk) is a 2019 book written by Swedish journalist and author Patrik Svensson.
Ecosystem services are grouped into four broad categories of services. There are provisioning services, such as the production of food and water; regulating services, such as the control of climate and disease; supporting services, such as nutrient cycles and oxygen production; and cultural services, such as spiritual and recreational benefits. [1]
The meaning of spirituality has developed and expanded over time, and various meanings can be found alongside each other. [1] [2] [3] [note 1] Traditionally, spirituality is referred to a religious process of re-formation which "aims to recover the original shape of man", [note 2] oriented at "the image of God" [4] [5] as exemplified by the founders and sacred texts of the religions of the world.
Bucca (Cornish, SWF: bocka, pl. bockas, bockyas [1] [2]) is a male sea-spirit in Cornish folklore, a merman, that inhabited mines and coastal communities as a hobgoblin during storms. The mythological creature is a type of water spirit likely related to the Púca from Irish , the Pwca from Welsh folklore , and the female mari-morgans , a type ...
Many religions also consider particular sources or bodies of water to be sacred or at least auspicious; examples include Lourdes in Roman Catholicism, the Jordan River (at least symbolically) in some Christian churches and Mandaeism called Yardena, the Zamzam Well in Islam and the River Ganges (among many others) in Hinduism.
Spiritual ecology includes a vast array of people and practices that intertwine spiritual and environmental experience and understanding. Additionally, within the tradition itself resides a deep, developing spiritual vision of a collective human/earth/divine evolution that is expanding consciousness beyond the dualities of human/other, human ...