This isn't really off topic too much, and if it is then it's still all good since eclectic would be a good descriptive word to use for this thread.

Bob, and other readers of this thread who may be interested, check out this excerpt from an online article titled "The Elements":

1.WATER

(A metaphysical dissertation on the various aspects of the watery element .)

Of the four elements in nature Earth , Air , Fire , and Water ( distinct from the chemical elements of the Periodic Table ) "Water" is symbolic of the " Watery Chaos" conceived in metaphysical thought to have preceded the formation of matter. The Ancient Egyptians went a bit further and suggested it was "milky", and in the process of creation became "curdy" as particles precipitated to form substance .In Indian philosophy this was firstly held in a state of potential called "Mulaprakriti", and in the objective "Prakriti", but the idea of a milky medium was more appealing and gave rise to the material source of this liquid to be held sacred and so the cow is still allowed this distinction , and the privilege of wandering free and to forage in India today. In Egypt, the Horns of the Cow became associated with the Crescent Moon and the Goddess Isis, and later found Christian expression on the Crown of Mary, the Mother of Christ.

The chemical composition of water is H2O , two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom per molecule, and can be regarded as a reflection of the Universal Triplicity inherent in all things . It is unique in some of its physical properties, expanding instead of contracting when frozen, and so floats on the surface. The importance of water in life cannot be over-emphasised, it began in the ocean and blood serum still maintains its salinity. The human body is made up of a vast number of cells, which act in concert in a very complex ecology of subordinate ecosystems. There is a relationship with the number 6 in septenate cosmogony of interchange between "watery planes"which are the 6th.levels. It is interesting to note, that snowflakes are never found to be duplicated, and are made in the form of a hexagon, so that all the arms of a snowflake radiate from a centre at an angle of 60 degrees.

In religious symbology Water is the same as Wine representing Spirit, and comes from above. In the formation of the six-pointed star, which is the sign of Solomon and the Star of David, this is visualised as a descending triangle point downwards meeting the ascending triangle of the Fire of Kundalini to form the hexagon, as mentioned elsewhere in the culmination of an evolutionary phase. The role of the "watery" Neptunian influence is of significance, as energy flows from there and concentrates on three psychic centres linking the head centres, the heart centre and the solar plexus centre ( ref'." number 6" , in the dissertation on "Number")...

http://www.users.bigpond.com/phdaley/elements.htm