#sacred mountain

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Night Out at Gonbo

Gonbo Rongjon is a sacred mountain of the Zanskari people of Ladakh, India

Photographer: Santanu Majumder

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Offerings of life and death. An apple from the tree planted in celebration of my birth and a deadly nightshade berry Happy Autumnal Equinox everyone!

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Taoist Mountains: Place of Spiritual Deed

The Taoist mountains represent the cardinal points of the mysterial cosmology, structuring the sacred space. The mountain idyll provides the perfect setting for alchemical and ritual deed. It is a space of seclusion, where the external worldly activity ceases, giving way to the internal. And the sacred in the Chinese imagery is inextricably linked with the aesthetic.

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Fanjingshan is a sacred mountain in Chinese Buddhism, considered the bodhimaṇḍa of Maitreya Buddha. It became the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2018.

Fanjingshan, Maitreya Buda'nın bodhimaṇḍa'sı olarak kabul edilen, Çin Budizminde kutsal bir dağdır. 2018'de UNESCO Dünya Mirası Listesi oldu .

Fanjingshan هو جبل مقدس في البوذية الصينية ، يعتبر بوديما مايتريا بوذا. أصبحت قائمة اليونسكو للتراث العالمي في عام 2018.

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The view on the way up and from the top of El Picacho in Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca, Mexico.

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“Olympus of the Romanians”: Ceahlau Massif - the holographic pyramid, the Ways to Heaven and The Feast of Transfiguration of the Lord

Beginning of August brings on Ceahlău mountain – the Olympus of Romanians , every year thousands of tourists that climbs the mountain with a specific purpose to witness a unique phenomenon in the world, a phenomenon that makes Mount Ceahlău be at least as interesting as Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids.

The Phenomenon occurs in the first days of August and reaches its maximum intensity exactly on August 6th, at sunrise, when the shadow of the tip Toaca combined with tip Piatra Ciobanului shadow form for over 80 minutes, a natural-looking hologram perfect pyramid. This is called Shadow Pyramid.

But besides the Shadow of the Pyramid, another short optical phenomenon occurs in Ceahlău, and is the appearance west for a few minutes, the wonderful Ways Of Heaven. The play of light and shadow that accompanies sunrise on Ceahlău Peak, Toaca shadow is projecting on the sky, the earth and sky merging with a dark road, bordered on the left by a light railing.

The two phenomena were observed in ancient times: around the day of 6th August, the local people were climbing up the mountain and witnessed at sunrise the two wonders of Ceahlău; in “Descriptio Moldaviae” Dimitrie Cantemir talks about Sacred Path, and some researchers estimate that the through peak Toaca pass one of the energetic axes of the globe.

Nowadays, every year, hundreds of people climb the mountain or to witness two miraculous events or to participate in church service on the mountain monastery, on the day of the Transfiguration (August 6th), or both.

Ceahlau is the only mountain in the country with a dedication of his, Transfiguration Day, is the second holy mountain after Mount Athos Orthodox Christianity and, it seems, is the only place in the world where there are two phenomena Shadow of the Pyramid and The Way of Heaven .

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Sacred Mountain. 6/ Place of punishment

After having committed the original sin, Adam is precipitated on the peak which today bears his name, in Ceylon; Prometheus is chained to the Caucasus for giving fire to men; the disobedient valkyrie punished by Odin lies asleep on the Mount of the Doe (Hindarfjall) surrounded by a wall of fire.

Melusine locks up her father, King Helynas of Albania, in a hollow mountain in Northumberland : he has broken the oath made to Pressine, his wife, not to see her in childbirth.

Pressine condemns his daughter Palestine to guard her father's treasure on a mountain in Aragon.

Finally, a legend propagated by the Church tells that Dietrich von Bern, heretic, (...) dies thrown into Etna, a fiery mountain.

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in Mythical Aspects of the Mountain in the Middle-Ages, C. Lecouteux (french article)

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Annapurna trek / Nepal

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Stairways in the fog, Huang Shan, China

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Annapurna trek / Nepal

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Stairways in the fog, Huang Shan, China

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Annapurna trek / Nepal

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Annapurna trek / Nepal

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Annapurna trek / Nepal

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Annapurna trek / Nepal