people in his house. This is the language they use when they seek to give praise to the refreshment bestowed by the communion with God which is found in the temple. It is insufficient to refer to the well of Gihon, which springs up in the valley of Kidron, below the temple, to account for the notion of a well of life associated with the temple, despite the importance of this source for Jerusalem. Just as we have already found the myth of the world-tree and of the world-mountain recurring in Ezekiel