Three realms of water culture, water culture and the origin of human beings. In Cahill's view, in the earliest mythological explanation of the universe, we can always find that a primitive anthropology and a primitive cosmology stand side by side: the origin of the world is inseparable from the origin of mankind. This scholar, recognized by western academic circles as the most important scholar since this century, has actually revealed a remarkable cultural phenomenon: the world and people are of the same origin. As a natural element and the support of life, water seems to have formed an indissoluble bond with human life and even cultural history from the very beginning with its natural connection. Looking at the origin of world culture, it is the surging Nile that gave birth to the splendid ancient Egyptian civilization, and the rise and fall of the Euphrates River obviously affected the rise and fall of the kingdom of Babylon. The natural environment along the Mediterranean obviously created the cradle of ancient Greek and Roman culture, while the two rivers flowing eastward-the Yellow River and the Yangtze River-nourished the profound Central Plains culture and the splendid Chu culture.
Water, with its primitive cosmological essence, has penetrated into the deep consciousness of human cultural thought. In the long history, with the evolution of human beings and the understanding of nature, it has been sublimated from the material level to a spiritual realm.