Where did water come from?
Though science cannot explain the existence of water, several religious explanations exist. Most of these simply state that God made it for some reason, but the Norkibrundians have a more interesting mythology:
When the Norkibrundian god council created the world, they did so without a single drop of water. The only water that existed at all was in the body of Dolores, the first human. Because Dolores and her children, the beginnings of humankind, subsisted on water and there was none to be found, Dolores hated the gods and demanded that they give her family water to drink. Vic, the strongest of the Gods agreed that this was unfair and ordered Ahaw, the laziest of the gods, to create water. Ahaw did so, but the water took on his lazy nature, and was most subject to gravity, always dripping downward to the lowest places on Earth. Coincidentally, Ahaw is said by the Norkibrundians to have created cats as well.
Because Dolores lived at the peak of the tallest mountain (Mt. Driskill), she and her progeny began a pilgrimage downward to the oceans where all the water had gone. Their journey was long and difficult, and one of her children died, her son Chiir. Thus it is said that every sip of water a human takes is paid for by the blood of her kin- And to this day before drinking the Norkibrundians will say the possessive form of his name in his honor, "Chiir's."
Dolores eventually made her way to the ocean where she and her remaining children drank of the pure water, but polluted it with their tears, and thus, ocean water is salty to this day, as are the Norkibrundians to their gods, especially Ahaw who is regarded as a lazy devil worthy of the contempt of the people. Fresh water from rain, and in lakes and rivers is regarded as having been created by Marty, a god whose story consists mostly of fixing Ahaw's mistakes. Marty is venerated by the Norkibrundians on Spring Equinox. Some say the holiday of Mardi Gras is based on a Christianization Marty's Day, pointing to the original Norkibrundian manner of celebration involving trading beads for the flashing of one or more breasts.
The Norkibrundian culture has nearly died out as of 2023, partly because of cultural shift and partly because the Norkibrundians only ever consisted of a few college students in the 60s who made all this up on a whim. Anyhow that's uh, what did you ask? Where water is from? Uh, sorry for the tangent. Water comes from clouds.
