The Captive Sea

An invisible all-powerful being named Nokuma created the world… When land and sea were created, Nokuma took a bit of soil and seawater and made the first man. Then he made the woman. They were the ancestors of all people.

Creation myth of the Southern California Indians

Many millions of years ago, the waters of the world’s oceans became the cradle of life on Earth. Many millions of years ago, in the vast watery spaces, the first single-celled living organisms lived. They drew nutrients and oxygen from the water, and released metabolic waste into the water, while the ocean provided a constant temperature. Time passed. The first multicellular organisms appeared. Simple diffusion – the exchange of substances with the environment – became insufficient. There arose a need for a mediator to transport necessary substances and remove metabolic waste. That mediator became the seawater itself, which became “enclosed” within the organism, transformed into a “captured sea,” and began to perform the same tasks as…

In the early stages of evolution, single-celled organisms had a simple process of fluid circulation within their bodies. As evolution progressed, this process became more complex: an open circulatory system evolved into a closed circulation system, with blood and the main driving organ – the heart. Hence the remarkable similarity in composition between seawater and the blood of Earth’s inhabitants. The words of academician A.P. Karpinsky, who referred to water as the living blood of the Earth, are not just symbolism.

Water covers 71% of Earth’s surface, and 95% of the world’s water consists of seas and oceans. And blood? The main component of its liquid part – plasma – is also water (90-92%), the main and actually the only solvent in which all the various chemical processes in the body take place. If we compare the ionic composition of seawater and blood serum (plasma without white blood cells), we will find that seawater has a higher concentration of salt, while the calcium and sodium content is the same. Seawater contains more magnesium and chlorine, while blood serum contains more potassium. The salt content in blood is constant, and- special buffer systems maintain and regulate it. It is surprising that the salt content in the ocean is also stable. Fluctuations in the content of certain salts are never greater than 1%.

In ancient times, it was noticed that sailors wounded in naval battles would heal faster than soldiers injured on land, so salt was included in the recipe for treating wounds. In 1897, René Quinton proposed using seawater as a substitute for blood, explaining the similarity in the percentage and quantity of sodium, calcium, and potassium ions in mammalian blood and seawater.

During World War II, A. Babkin and V. Sosnovski created a preparation from seawater as a substitute for lost blood, which entered history as the solution AM-4 Babsky.

It is known that losing half of one’s blood is fatal, and losing 20-30% of water in tissue is also deadly for humans and animals. All of this tells us about the immense importance that these two irreplaceable fluids have in the life of the Earth and all beings that inhabit it. settle.

What is the role of blood? Blood primarily transports substances, supplying organs and tissues with nutrients and gases, and removes metabolic waste products. If water is the living blood of the Earth, then rivers, streams, canals, and springs are its circulatory system. It is through the circular flow of water in nature that vast quantities of chemicals are transported and exchanged. The waters of oceans and seas never rest. Different natural processes (winds, tides, ocean currents) drive the waters of the ocean. The world’s ocean contains a huge mass of water and has a large heat capacity, accumulating solar energy and, thanks to its constant motion, warming the air and water, thus shaping, moderating, and stabilizing the climate.

Blood also circulates continuously and participates in thermal metabolism – redistributing heat between organs and maintaining a constant body temperature. Blood also plays a crucial protective role. It safeguards the organism against bacteria and viruses, collects and neutralizes its own cells that they have escaped control and neutralizes toxins. The blood sends signals of danger to the organs, prompting them to engage in a collective defense reaction when the external intrusion reaches a critical level.

The blood coordinates the activity of all organs and tissues, connecting the body as a whole. The primordial ancestor of blood – the world ocean – performs the same functions, except in the case of the ocean, the organism is not a single person or animal, but our entire planet Earth.

The ocean and blood. They nourish, protect, cleanse, and warm the planet or organism, continents and organs, billions of living beings and billions of cells. The life of all these beings and cells on the planet and in the body would be impossible without water and blood.

In life, humans ingest, accumulate, and excrete waste substances and so-called toxins. All of these substances pass through the blood. And when the amount of these waste substances exceeds the amount that the body can neutralize and excrete, it leads to immune system disorders and diseases.

However, in addition to poisoning with a large amount of waste substances, In his own body, man creates and produces waste that poisons the Earth. The Earth’s “circulatory system” is increasingly referred to as the “vein blood of civilization”. At the beginning of the 20th century, it was considered not advisable to drink water from stagnant sources such as swamps and puddles, but today water must not be consumed from any source without prior filtration and disinfection.

In order to preserve health, man must take care of the cleanliness of his blood. However, in order for our lives to continue on Earth, this is not enough because water is the living blood of the Earth and the health of the entire Earth and every human depends on its purity.