Dominating the world of Men and rising to the skies, The Mountain symbolizes in most cultures, the proximity of God. The clouds surrounding its top also convey its mystery and inaccessible nature. There is a considerable list of sacred mountains in which God revealed himself to men (Fujiyama, Sinai, Carmel, Olympus, etc).
Because of this, many pilgrimages are directed towards sacred mountains. In Japan for instance more than 200 000 pilgrims climb the Mont Fuji every year and in Pre-Colombian Mexico, The Rain God Tlaloc, was reverenced at the top of the Mountain of the same name.
In Christian iconography, the judge of the end of the times is often pictured as sitting on a mountain of clouds. All other mountains are flattened – which illustrates the end of pagan worship. It is also no coincidence that in the times where missionaries went to convert the people of central Europe, certain high places were considered as the dwelling of malefic sorcerers. There’s a parallel in the Tibetan cultures where it is said that bad spirits, called the Khadomas, constantly travel about in the height of mountains and incarnate in the form of women that try to disturb holy men.
Now you take the floor, what do you associate with the mountains?
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Hello Guru, what entice you to post an article. This article was extremely interesting, especially since I was searching for thoughts on this subject last night.
For me mountain = freedom and peace.
When I am on a top and look arround I like to take a deep breath. This is it, I arrived on the top, I have accomplished something. There is nowhere to go from here. The sky is near and I can see the things of the world in their right perspective. They are far, they are small, they are somewhat beautifull if you look at them from here. They can’t touch you anymore, they can’t hurt. the suffering is over. The reward is beauty and majesty. It makes you feel it was worth to get here. And yes, you can hear God’s voice a lot clearer. “Do you like what I gave you my daughter? Isn’t it lovely?” “Yes, Father, yes! It’s amazing! I can’t see You but what You have created is lovely. I think you are even more lovely then this!” I love mountains. I can talk to them. They have seen so much in their lives! I mean sooo much! Maybe they were once the bottom of the sea hosting lots of sorts of fishes, maybe they were once fields that fed thousands of living creatures. Now they are wise and talk only for those that have ears for hearing…
So wonderful…
Hasta la vista baby!
Yang, masculine, green and brown, nature & sensation, union of earth and sky, fire and water, 3, two faces and one hidden, shaman, grass and snow, fairy beings, mushrooms, rocks, wolves, old woman, trees but the more we climb, generally the more it’s free of to a better seeing but lack of oxygen, height, path & bridges, attention, pilgrimage, Mons philosophorum : spiritual ascencion to the top, or God’s houses (philosphic stone- good gold), eternity, mystery.
Struggle and magnificent view.
When I see one, even a “tiny” hill… I very ofthen long to climb to the top. I like all of it – the top and the view, the walls of the mountain, the windling path and standing at the foot looking up. I was lucky to see a lot of them in France on my vacation. :-)
Strangely enough I never have dreams with mountains,
I mostly have dreams with water, streams, ponds and dams.
clean, fresh air; healing; freedom
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