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  2. Elixir of life - Wikipedia

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    Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." (John 4:14) The Scots and the Irish adopted the name for their "liquid gold": the Gaelic name for whiskey is uisce beatha, or water of life. “Kimia” is from Ancient Greek language and used in old Persian literature, in which it means something ...

  3. Water - Wikipedia

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    All known forms of life depend on water. Water is vital both as a solvent in which many of the body's solutes dissolve and as an essential part of many metabolic processes within the body. Metabolism is the sum total of anabolism and catabolism. In anabolism, water is removed from molecules (through energy requiring enzymatic chemical reactions ...

  4. Paradox of value - Wikipedia

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    Water is a commodity that is essential to life. In the paradox of value, it is a contradiction that it is cheaper than diamonds, despite diamonds not having such an importance to life. The paradox of value , also known as the diamond–water paradox , is the paradox that, although water is on the whole more useful in terms of survival than ...

  5. Awonawilona - Wikipedia

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    The new combination of light, clouds, and air allowed for vegetation and made Awonawilona the "essence" of life [1] as they created the universe. [4] The universe was made up of 9 layers: the first layer was the earth and the other 8 were homes for various animals, birds, and trees. [4]

  6. Sacred waters - Wikipedia

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    In this way, many groups characterize water as "living water", or the "water of life". [4] [5] [6] This means that it gives life and is the fundamental element from which life arises. Each religious or cultural group that feature waters as sacred substances tends to favor certain categorizations of some waters more than others, usually those ...

  7. Water of Life (Christianity) - Wikipedia

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    Depiction of Fleuve de Vie, the "River of Life", from the Book of Revelation, Urgell Beatus, (f°198v-199), c. 10th century. In Christianity the term "water of Life" (Greek: ὕδωρ ζωῆς hydōr zōēs) is used in the context of living water, specific references appearing in the Book of Revelation (21:6 and 22:1), as well as the Gospel of John. [1]

  8. Kidney (Chinese medicine) - Wikipedia

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    storing essence and dominating human reproduction and development; dominating the water metabolism and the reception of qi from the air (Kong Qi) producing marrow to fill up the brain and spinal cord. dominating the bones. manufacturing blood; manifesting in the head hair. opening into the ear and dominating the two lower yin (the anus and urethra)

  9. The body in traditional Chinese medicine - Wikipedia

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    Water is an element of life and death. Water governs the Kidneys (1) and the Bladder (2). (1) The Kidneys, a Yin organ, are the source of all the Yin and Yang energy in the body. The Kidneys also govern the endocrine system, receive air from the lungs, govern bones, govern teeth, control water in the body, and store essence.