Water and man in symbiosis on the plateau of the bjelasnica mountain

Since its inception, man, with a continuous struggle for survival, has thought about himself and the world around him in the way of asking many questions that have become eternal questions of man's essence in general: Who is man? Where is he from? Since when? What is his place in the Universe? Is it a given or self-generating being? Where is he going? How long will it last? ... Man gives answers to these questions constantly, over and over again, through religion, philosophy, science, art and his daily practical work. The man announced his first answers to some of these questions with drawings carved into the walls of his first habitat, a cave, which he did not build but found in nature. In his „cave phase of life“ (Paleolithic) man is a hunter and fruit gatherer. By stepping out of the cave into the open space (Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages), man shows that he is bolder, more resourceful and stronger than other living beings with whom he shares nature. He became a farmer and breeder of domestic animals, socially organized (first through clan and tribal communities and later through arrangements we know as a slave-owning society). Rich civilizations are emerging in the valleys of large rivers, and on islands and shores of warmer seas across the planet Earth. The abundance of water along more or less vast and fertile river valleys and suitable sea shores, all combined with other climatic benefits (especially the number of sunny days and temperatures), resulted in intensive agriculture that brought abundant yields whose surpluses in open trade changed for others goods or „cashed in“ (turned into universal goods, into gold). Cities were created as a physical objectification of complex interpersonal relations, and in them a large number of various constructions, as a physical framework of a more or less wide range of human needs. Aware that water is the basic precondition of his existence (and well-being as a high level of existence), man thanks the water donor in various ways. The obvious truth that the existence of abundance of water is a basic prerequisite for all abundance, but the creators of the first civilizations have already covered the myths and deities-guardians of water. At the same time, exceptional individuals (scholars, philosophers) begin to think about the world around them in search of its meaning, and therefore the place of man in that world. In some of the first known philosophical reflections (dating from the 7th century BC), water is considered to be the basic element, the beginning, of the Universe. We state this because the latest knowledge about water largely correlates with this teaching. The great religions (which their followers believe to be the direct word of God, God's revelations), Judaism, Christianity and Islam, give water the meaning of life and universal energy which (as life) in a special way (hitherto incomprehensible) permeates the entire Universe. This paper is a small contribution to the understanding of the symbiotic relationship between water and man, on the example of the Plateau of the Bjelasnica Mountain.