An Excerpt From The Bond Between Women: A Journey to Fierce Compassion ~ China Galland

"It is not superstition or tradition or arbitrary, culturally bound beliefs that hold the waters, especially the waters of the Ganges, to be sacred, that hold the forests to be sacred, Prakriti, Nature Herself. It is a deep, abiding, ageless wisdom that has given us a way to remember what we know so deeply, so completely: Our bodies are made up largely of water. Without it, we perish. Water is by its very nature sacred. Water is made up of atoms of hydrogen and oxygen that lie against one another at an angle of 104.5 degrees. Always. This geometric angle is so unique that it has been called the angle of life, for without it, there would be no water. When the waters are poisoned, we are poisoned. This great repository of the living tradition of the sacred feminine in India reminds us again to honor the waters, to praise the waters, to celebrate the waters, to protect the waters. We are born in water. Each and every one of us. Our mothers' waters break, then we are born. We live in the waters of amniotic fluid, float for three quarters of a year, then we are born, carried on water to this human shore."

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my own stick and ball structure of water molecule