The silvery flow of rivers reminds wisdom seekers of the infinitesimal nature of time, of the purity and life-force of water, of the course of existence; but what of the rivers of burning magma, abruptly erupting out from within the crust of the earth, and slowly engulfing and annihilating everything it touches? It is destruction and creation at once, in a rekindling with our Hadean ancestors - for we are the heirdom of its furnace; we, the claymen of its forge.