Motif
animate or personified mountain
animate_or_personified_mountain
A motif of the World Axis and Sacred Center family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
hindu
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The Ramayan of Valmiki FOOTNOTES / ILIAD. XVII. 426. / GORRESIO. / MACBETH.; lines 65001-65150 confidence: high
Mainaka is identified as son of Himalaya and Mena or Menaka; Miltonic self-moving hills are quoted as a parallel; the note says a mountain spirit can be separable and Himalaya has appeared in human form on one of his peaks.
The notes describe Mainaka's mountain genealogy, mountain spirits separable from mountains, and Himalaya in human form.
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