When anthropologist James Mooney published the first of his influential studies of Native American culture in 1888, "Myths of the Cherokee," he was struck by the centrality of water in the Cherokee world.

Which sentence from the article BEST supports this idea?

A
Mooney had spent a season living with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in the Great Smoky Mountains in North Carolina.
B
Water, Mooney discovered during his season with the Eastern Band, appeared at the very beginning of Cherokee cosmology.
C
Each morning at daybreak, Mooney wrote, a party of Cherokee would be led by a healer down to a running stream, where the group would face the rising sun and immerse themselves completely in the flowing water, enacting a kind of rebirth.
D
The translation of the Cherokee word for river, "Long Man," or, more literally, "person, long, he," evokes something of the sacred essence of those bodies of water, which the Cherokee saw as living entities, endowed with their own unique personalities and attributes.