Well

Norse tradition

• Well appears in Norse tradition.

  Snorri places wells at the roots of Yggdrasil. The wells are a Norse mythic hydrology.

  from Snorri Sturluson · Gylfaginning, c. 1220

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• Well is associated with Tree.

  Snorri’s ash stands over wells. The pairing is that prose’s architecture, not a universal tree-and-spring.

  from Snorri Sturluson · Gylfaginning, c. 1220

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• Well is associated with Knowledge.

  Snorri’s Mímisbrunnr is a well of wisdom won at a cost. The knowledge is a Norse drink, not a Hermetic treatise.

  from Snorri Sturluson · Gylfaginning, c. 1220

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• Cistern is used in Well.

  Snorri’s Gylfaginning seats the waters held at Urðarbrunnr, Mímisbrunnr, and Hvergelmir — a named cistern-kind used in that well-holding speech. Not spring-water as rising liquor alone and not well as the place already walked.

  from Snorri Sturluson · Gylfaginning, c. 1220

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Hellenic religion

• Well appears in Hellenic religion.

  Pausanias names sacred and storied wells among sanctuary and city water points. A named well in that periegesis, not spring as a missing entity and not a modern pump dump.

  from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

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Chinese tradition

• Well appears in Chinese tradition.

  Wilhelm’s Yijing names The Well (Jǐng) among the sixty-four hexagrams. A named well figure in that classic, not a village-cistern dump and not the cauldron hexagram.

  from Richard Wilhelm / Cary F. Baynes (translation) · I Ching (Yijing), Wilhelm 1924; Baynes English 1950

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