The water of life, wishing to make itself known on the face of the earth, bubbled up in an artesian well and flowed without effort or limit. People came to drink of the magic water and were nourished because it was so clean and pure. Before long humankind gradually began to fence off, charge admission, and claim ownership of the well. Soon it was the property of the powerful and the elite. The water was angry and offended; it stopped flowing and began to bubble up in another place. The people who owned the property around the first well continued selling the impotent water, and few people noticed that its true power was gone. Some dissatisfied people searched and found the new artesian well, but soon it was under the control of the property owners, and the same fate overtook it. The spring took itself to yet another place—and so it has been going on throughout recorded history.