Water
Chief Sozap Lolô catalogs six Abenakis words that qualify water: sibobi (river water), solgônbi (rain water), tkebi (spring water), nbisonbi (mineral water), pibganbi (muddy water), whawdazibôminebi (well water). How important to decipher what proves safe to drink. How that knowledge matters for the lifeblood of the living. It is evolutionary thought. The act of naming the world outside the self also an act to preserve the self. They say more than half the human body contains water. To drink water is to sustain life, an act of harmony. To be water is life in constant flux, it mirrors evolution.
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