Mandos and Nienna - the Symbols of Good Friday and Holy Saturday

"Those who sow with tears will reap with songs of joy."

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In Russian folk tales, the “water of life” and the “water of death” are magical waters. The water of death can restore a body (for example, if it was hewn into pieces), and the water of life can resurrect the dead.

Reading those folk tales as a child, I couldn’t understand how these two waters were related. Why is the first water called “de…