Ancient Wisdom Atlas

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

  • 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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