Water was since decades a symbol for life, a symbol for the “blood of our Earth”. Towns are built since Middle Age next to rivers. The bigger the river the richer became the town. Water is more important to feed ourselves than all other food. Human bodies contain a big part of water, living water and water alive. Water was always used for rituals. Therefore water was under control of monks, priests and powerful people. Water was the basics for beer, more healthy in the Middle Ages than the contaminated water in the big cities.
Water today is so costly, that we have to expect wars for water. Without water grass, grain and plants can’t grow anymore. Animals and people start starving. Without water firestorms have to be faced like in Australia now, like in Greece or California last year. Water supply is going back in India, in China, Middle East and Spain too. The population plus industry uses more water than nature gives back. The fires last years demonstrate how the climate changes.
From a mystical approach the fight between fire and water symbolizes the growing conflicts between people, old and young ones, rich and poor ones, the conflicts between men and animals, conflicts between female and male energies inside, conflicts between “us and them”, conflicts between East and West, North and South etc.
