Holy Mountain

Holy Mountain may refer to:

  • the mytheme or archetype of the world mountain
  • specific peaks identified as sacred mountains
  • in Abrahamic tradition
    • Mount Sinai, by the Bedouin, is the name of a mountain near Saint Catherine in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt
    • The Temple Mount
    • Mount Tabor, located in Lower Galilee, at the eastern end of the Jezreel Valley, 11 miles (18 km) west of the Sea of Galilee, in Israel

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Famous quotes containing the words holy and/or mountain:

    “Now the birth of Jesus the Messiah took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been engaged to Joseph, but before they lived together, she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. Her husband Joseph, being a righteous man and unwilling to expose her to public disgrace, planned to dismiss her quietly.”
    —Bible: New Testament, Matthew 1:18,19.

    “There is a mountain in the distant West
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    Displays a cross of snow upon its side.
    Such is the cross I wear upon my breast
    These eighteen years, through all the changing scenes
    And seasons, changeless since the day she died.”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)