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Watson, Lyall - Sacred mountains and volcanoes
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Lyall Watson – The Nature of things
Everest is known locally as Chomo-Lung-Ma – ‘goddess mother of the universe’ and Nandi Devi as ‘mother of the Ganges’. Mount Olympus is home to the gods of classical Greece, Mount Meru to the Hindu pantheon. The pyramids and ziggurats of Egypt, Babylon and Central America were artificial mountains, high and sacred places built where the land was flat … in Hawaii Mauna Loa is the home of Pele, goddess of the fiery volcano ………………
The ‘Navel of the World’ – Gunung Agung – rises over 10,000 feet from the coastal plain, looming very large, reminding everyone of its presence by an occasional irritable rumble. To the Balinese, the mountain is north wherever you happen to be. It is everything that is good, powerful, magical and healthy. And to them it is undeniably alive