Holy wells

well located within the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca

thumb|right|200px|The trio of norns at the well Urðarbrunnr as depicted in Fredrik Sander's 1893 translation of the Poetic Edda. Wood engraving by L. B. Hansen.

thumb|Odin drinks from Mímisbrunnr as Mímir looks on (1903) in a work by Robert Engels In Norse mythology, Mímisbrunnr (Old Norse "Mímir's wellspring") is a spring or well associated with the being Mímir, located beneath the world tree Yggdrasil. Mímisbrunnr is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson. The wellspring is located beneath one of three roots of the world tree Yggdrasil, a root that passes into the Jötunheimr where the primordial plane of Ginnungagap once existed.

spring or other small body of water revered either in a Pagan or Christian context, often both

water-filled sinkhole at the Maya archaeological site of Chichen Itza,

Sardinian hypogean Bronze Age structure for the worship of water

A historic water well in Medina

cultural heritage site in Peru

Historical place in Medina, Saudi Arabia