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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    “And, indeed, is there not something holy about a great kitchen?... The scoured gleam of row upon row of metal vessels dangling from hooks or reposing on their shelves till needed with the air of so many chalices waiting for the celebration of the sacrament of food. And the range like an altar, yes, before which my mother bowed in perpetual homage, a fringe of sweat upon her upper lip and the fire glowing in her cheeks.”
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    “Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.”
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