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Abbreviations
Introduction
Interpreting the Watery Framework: Philosophy, Cosmogony, and Physics
1. Water and the Creation of the World
2.Seas and Lakes
3. The Interplay between Water and Land
Explaining Watery Phenomena
4. Watery Weather
5. Paradoxical Waters
6. Water, Health, and Disease
Imagining the Watery World
7. (Biological) Creatures of the Sea
8. (Mythical) Sea Monsters and Sea Gods
9. Water and Ritual
10. Sailor Cults and Cults of Sea Gods
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index