CHAPTER V.
THE MYTHS OF WATER, FIRE, AND THE THUNDER-STORM.
Water the oldest element .-- Its use in purification .-- Holy water .-- The Rite of Baptism .-- The Water of Life .-- Its symbols .-- The Vase .-- The Moon .-- The latter the goddess of love and agriculture, but also of sickness, night, and pain .-- Often represented by a dog .-- Fire worship under the form of Sun worship .-- The perpetual fire .-- The new fire .-- Burning the dead .-- A worship of the passions, but no sexual dualism in myths, nor any phallic worship in America .-- Synthesis of the worship of Fire, Water, and the Winds in the THUNDER-STORM, personified as Haokah, Tupa, Catequil, Contici, Heno, Tlaloc, Mixcoatl, and other deities, many of them triune 122.