Water is the source of life, not only as an elementary element, but also as a series of living forces, beings, which help create and sustain life. Water takes many forms, each with its own potentials for helping or harming humans and the plant and animals that sustain them. Water is Associated with Spectacular Geology. Rivers cut geologically dramatic canyons, water falls electrify the air around them as well as provide spectacular views. Sunlight interacts with water to produce rainbows, which are themselves, another life form.
Hot springs create multicolored environments that are both attractive and healthy for humans.
Spectacular geology is often associated with exposed mineral deposits that are used such as clays for medicine, salt for food, and hematite pigment for ceremony. Water Demonstrates its Power. Violent summer rains are called male rains by the Navajo people to indicate that they have different characteristics than the more gentle female rains of winter. Floods from rivers enrich some sand-based deltas associated with the river basin while destroying animals, plants, and eroding other places in the river basin. Flash floods appear where little rain has fallen and, having directly interacted with the land elsewhere, move great quantities of earth as well as water.