A Foray into Metanoia
Isn't it rather easy to personify some things, rather than looking elsewhere? For example, bestowing human-like tendencies on a fluid representative like the ocean becomes immediately relatable. The waves of it might almost represent the recurring changes in an individual's thoughts and feelings, the two extremes of anger and calm reflecting themselves in human mood swings. The sea often seems to have a mind of its own, rage and peace alike. Of course, it is not above us humans to press our moods on our surroundings,but the ocean seems to resist this influence insistently, somehow... We do try to either control the sea, or at least glorify it, in some way or the other. The concepts of the sea gods, prevalent in different cultures (such as Poseidon in Greek Mythology), served to focus deification on nature as a means of appeasing a 'higher entity', through which ultimately humans sought to control nature in