sacred mountains
Spiritually revered summits
Sacred mountains are peaks or ranges invested with spiritual or religious significance.
Many cultures venerate particular mountains as dwelling places of gods, sites of divine revelation, or centers of cosmic power: Mount Sinai, Mount Olympus, Mount Fuji.
Pilgrims climb them, temples crown them, and myths explain them.
The sacred mountains of the Navajo mark the boundaries of their homeland.
- prayer flagsStrung cloths carrying blessings
- prayer offeringsDonations made during worship
- shamanismMediation between worlds
- animismSpirits inhabit all things
- spirit worldRealm of the dead
divinity · peak · ancestors · legend · axis mundi · oral tradition · creation myths · transcendence · cosmology · purification · shrine · spirits · mountain deity · offering · vision quest · journey · storytelling · taboo
- geomythologyflood myths, crater lakes
- UNESCO sitesMachu Picchu, Angkor Wat, Versailles, Great Wall, Stonehenge
- ancient religiongods, goddesses, pantheon, deity, polytheism
- Japanese religionShinto, kami, Shintoism, Buddhism, torii
- Andean Culturellama, alpaca, quinoa, Quechua, panpipes
- Chinese BuddhismBuddhist monasteries, Buddhist texts, Mahayana, Shaolin Temple, Shaolin
sacred mountainsstrip mines
Surface-level ore extraction sites
cursed land · garbage dumps · landfills · quarries · industrial zones
sacred mountainsabyssal depths
Deepest oceanic regions
the underworld · hellmouths · pits · chasms · ocean trenches
sacred mountainscursed ground
Land under supernatural blight
mass graves · killing fields · Chernobyl · Auschwitz · haunted grounds