At Shangriballa we are blessed to have pure spring water that comes from the mountain. We are the first in line to the source of water 800 meters above sea level. We have waterfalls and natural pools where we conduct our water ceremonies.
In South Africa, I worked with a shaman/sangoma that worked mainly with water to heal. For years I worked with her and got to understand how powerful this element was. Water is the lifeblood of our mother earth the holiest being we will ever get to touch in this incarnation, used correctly water can bring balance and health.
She trained me to work with water and how to do spiritual baths, water root and river ceremonies. It was through her blessing and initiation that I now use water as a healing modality. Water was one of the first elements that came into existence, and that makes it an ancient substance filled with wisdom.
People search the world for sacred water sites where they can immerse and experience oneness with God. Healing water rituals have existed in all cultures since recorded time and are thought to have existed in pre-historic cultures for millions of years. Most ancient cultures maintain spiritual creation stories crediting water as the origin of life.
Mythological stories of water deities have been passed down through oral traditions, and many continue to live on in modern religions and ceremonial traditions. Every culture on earth has a spiritual reverence for water and uses water symbolically in ceremonies, christenings, baptisms, and initiations.
Many shrines have been constructed to praise the element of water; and often, these particular sites attract hundreds of thousands of people who make regular pilgrimages to participate in water healing rituals.
When water emerges from underground it is right there where it experiences its first exposure to light. This is the water that is thought to be most sacred, having emerged with all the resonance of the heart of the Earth still within its cells. These sacred wellsprings may be found in very remote places.
It is no surprise that people will travel through rugged terrain and suffer hardship in order to touch those pure waters. When the water has flowed over rocks, minerals, soil and roots, the energies present in each molecule are bursting with electromagnetic energy and have not been distorted by human contact or toxic resonance.
For thousands of years, cultures have performed water ceremonies.
Water Ceremonies in Egypt
Egyptian Priest and Anubis (Lord of the Dead) pouring water and water over King preparing him for his journey through the afterlife. The symbol of the Ankh represents water in the following pictures. The hieroglyphs depict Egyptian priest was bathing an Egyptian King with water and herbs depicted as ankh’s and one holding a sceptre in one hand and an ankh which represent eternal life.
Nile Water Ceremony Bath of Infants
Many believe that the Nubian infant bathing rituals date back to ancient Egypt. Generally, the ritual baths took place seven days after the birth of the child. A procession consisting of family and community elders walk to the river singing chants to the child’s spirit and asking the deities of the River Nile to protect and bless the child’s incarnation.
Food prepared by older women is offered to the Nile as a sacrifice while the men send a miniature boat with a white candle lite as a guild for the child’s earthly longevity. Many West African ethnic groups still perform the seven-day ceremony. For instance, among the Akans and Ga of Ghana, the birth ritual is done to confirm that the child was here to stay and would not return to the realm of the spirits.
Many of these rituals were brought from Africa to the Americas and continues to this day.
Piankhi Orders Soldiers to do Sacred Bath in the Nile
Piankhi /Piye of the 25th Dynasty of Egypt/ KMT has written
one of the oldest military ritual baths in ancient history. Piankhi
ruled over much of the modern-day Sudan and Egypt. He was a Nubian and recorded
his military victory on a Stela. Piankhi considered his military conquest of
Upper Egypt as a holy war to restore the shrines and temples. When his army
entered the sacred city of Thebes, he ordered his men to do a ritual bath of
the Nile stating
“When ye arrive at Thebes, before Karnak, ye shall enter into the water; ye
shall bathe in the river, ye shall dress in [fine white linen], unstring the
bow, loosen the arrow..”
The text above describes the Emperor’s religious preoccupation with paying
homage to the unseen frequencies and powers that control the Nile. It is a
glaring example of ritual purification, spiritual revitalization and cultural
renewal.
Ritual Baths in the Bible
Ritual baths in the Bible were quite common. The oldest documented account of a spiritual ritual bath occurs in the Old Testament. John the Baptist were well known for doing his baptisms in rivers. There are many accounts of healing in and with water in Christianity.
“Where a spring rises or water flows, there ought we to build altars and offer sacrifices.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca4 B.C. – 65 B.C