The Watered Mound

After leading the tribe on what seems like a hopeless course for several days, the author encounters what in other contexts might be described as an oasis - an area of water and fertility in an otherwise barren landscape. The author herself describes this particular oasis, founded upon a mound of earth, as resembling a female breast. It can therefore be seen as symbolizing the author's reconnection with her own eternal, ever-flowing feminine nature and also perhaps with her connecting with "Mother Earth."