holy mountain
Revered spiritual summit
A holy mountain is a mountain considered sacred in a religious or spiritual tradition, often believed to be a dwelling place of gods, a site of divine revelation, or a place where heaven and earth meet.
Examples include Mount Sinai in Judaism and Christianity, Mount Kailash in Hinduism and Buddhism, and Mount Olympus in ancient Greek religion.
Pilgrimages to holy mountains remain significant practices in many faiths, with believers ascending to seek spiritual transformation or communion with the divine.
- offeringSomething presented or given
- shrineSacred devotional place
- peakUtmost height attained
- TransfigurationSacred appearance change
- summitPeak or diplomatic gathering
thin air · cloud cover · Olympus · high places · temple · axis mundi · sacred · enlightenment · fasting · Zion · transcendence · prayer · purification · spiritual journey · theophany · celestial realm · prophecy · elevation
- mythsmyth, legend, fable, fairy tale, folk tale
- sacredsacred, sanctity, sacredness, holiness, divine
- Japanese religionShinto, kami, Shintoism, Buddhism, torii
- sacred mountainssacred peaks, Mount Sinai, Mount Fuji, Olympus, Mount Olympus
- sacred sitesBuddhist temples, Jerusalem, consecrated ground, Hindu temples, sacred rivers
- IsaiahIsaiah, prophet, Immanuel, Emmanuel, suffering servant
holy mountainbottomless pit
Inexhaustible void or cavity
hell · underworld · Gehenna · Tartarus · hellmouth