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Sacred Ground Sacred Water
At Montezuma Well near Sedona Arizona

Montezuma Well Near Sedona Arizona
Montezuma Well.

Sedona, AZ: On an arid and sometimes harsh landscape, water in all its forms is a sacred element. It is something to be worshiped, solicited, celebrated; an element of birth and rebirth, sustaining all life in a landscape dependent upon rains that seem to fall from one year to the next on the whims of gods, where prayers and ceremonies around water are a way of life and oral traditions about its sacred purpose are carried forward generation to generation.

Without water, existence is no longer a possibility.

Find upon that same landscape an ever-flowing source of water, a bottomless well seeping up from the core of Mother Earth, the flow constant and steadfast. A well unaffected by season or drought or the changing faces of people living off the land for hundreds of years.

Ruins Above Montezuma Well Near Sedona Arizona
Prehistoric ruins above Montezuma Well.

Such a place would be holy ground, the water sacred. Created as an accident of nature 11,000 years ago, Montezuma Well is a large sinkhole with a continuous flow of water seeping up through vents in the limestone. It was once home to Sinaguan farmers who used the water to irrigate their fields, and that today, supports aquatic life that cannot be found anywhere else in the world.







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