Legends of Water
One day I asked water to remind me of my roots…
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Reading the Legends of Water and looking through the rich colourful illustrations will remind you of The Mountain that Loved a Bird by Alice McLerran, illustrated by Eric Carle. Yet the book has a taste of ancient Ukrainian tales spiced up by the traditional Ukrainian designs.
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Legends of Water is a compilation of mystical legends centered on a woman and her relationship with one of the four fundamental elements of nature: water. Once flowing through the Ukrainian city of Lviv, the Poltva River was forced underground to accommodate increasing urbanization, urbanization functioning as the masculine component in the story. Despite ancestral beliefs in the healing properties of the river’s streams and waters, the underground river became part of the city’s sewage system. The blocking of the river resulted in chronic water shortages throughout the city in the 20th century. Now, more than 100 years later, the legends of the nurturing, healing powers of the vanished river have resurfaced, asking to be retold.