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| Tradition | Source | Passage | Confidence | Evidence | Record |
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| Ainu | Aino Folk-Tales | AINO FOLK-LORE. / I.--TALES ACCOUNTING FOR THE ORIGIN OF PHENOMENA. / II.--MORAL TALES. / IV.--MISCELLANEOUS TALES.; lines 1719-1809 | high | A skilled young hunter pursues a large bear through dangerous mountain heights until it disappears into a hole on a bleak mountain summit. | record |
| Ainu | Aino Folk-Tales | AINO FOLK-LORE. / I.--TALES ACCOUNTING FOR THE ORIGIN OF PHENOMENA. / II.--MORAL TALES. / IV.--MISCELLANEOUS TALES.; lines 2102-2199 | medium | Okikurumi returns from hunting, pursues them alone by boat, and cannot catch two rowers. | record |
| Islamicate Folklore | The Arabian Nights Entertainments | The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 4276-4375 | medium | Stormy weather drives the ship off course; the captain realizes they are in a dangerous spot, a current sweeps them toward a mountain, and the ship is dashed on rocks after the people scramble ashore with valuables. | record |
| Islamicate Folklore | The Arabian Nights Entertainments | The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 4377-4474 | high | The mountain bounds the island on the seaward side; the rocky shore is strewn with shipwrecks, mariners' bones, merchandise, and treasure. | record |
| Buddhist | Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1 | TABLE VIII. / THE DISTANT EPOCH. / GLORY BE TO THE BLESSED, THE HOLY, THE ALL-WISE ONE. / BOOK I.; lines 7473-7594 | medium | “They go to many a refuge-- / To the mountains and the forest....” and the supplied continuation ends, “They are freed from every pain.” | record |
| Daoist | Chuang Tzu: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer | CHAPTER XXVII. / LANGUAGE. / CHAPTER XXVIII. / ON DECLINING POWER.; lines 12569-12649 | medium | The speakers say the empire is in darkness, Chou virtue has faded, and union under Chou would disgrace them; they flee north to Mount Shou-yang and later starve themselves to death. | record |
| Daoist | Chuang Tzu: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer | THE SECRET OF LIFE. / CHAPTER XX. / MOUNTAIN TREES. / CHAPTER XXI.; lines 9030-9184 | high | Lieh Yü K'ou instructs Po Hun Wu Jên in archery, drawing a full bow with a cup of water on his elbow and shooting arrows while standing like a statue. | record |
| Sufi | The Confessions of Al Ghazzali | THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF SEEKERS AFTER TRUTH / THE AIM OF SCHOLASTIC THEOLOGY AND ITS RESULTS / DIVISIONS OF THE PHILOSOPHIC SCIENCES / SUFISM; lines 1006-1095 | medium | The passage says saintly miracles are early prophetic manifestations and cites Muhammad’s retirement to Mount Hira for intense prayer and meditation before receiving his commission, while Arabs said he had become enamoured of God. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE GREAT WORKS / THE IDAEAN DACTYLS / THE THEOGONY / THE CATALOGUES OF WOMEN AND EOIAE1701; lines 3421-3527 | medium | Tyro bears Neleus and Pelias by Poseidon, has other sons by Cretheus, and Jason is born from Aeson and Polymede and brought up by Chiron in Pelion. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | ARGUMENT. / THE BATTLE AT THE GRECIAN WALL. / BOOK XIII. / ARGUMENT.; lines 12542-12674 | high | Hector leads the Trojan charge and is compared to a rock fragment rolling from a mountain under torrent force until it stops unmoved. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | BOOK XIII. / ARGUMENT. / BOOK XIV. / JUNO DECEIVES JUPITER BY THE GIRDLE OF VENUS.; lines 13984-14087 | medium | Juno blushes and objects that Ida is exposed to mortal and immortal sight; she proposes retiring to a love-bower made by Vulcan. | record |
| Greek | The Iliad | JUNO DECEIVES JUPITER BY THE GIRDLE OF VENUS. / BOOK XV. / ARGUMENT. / THE FIFTH BATTLE AT THE SHIPS; AND THE ACTS OF AJAX.; lines 14562-14665 | medium | Jove commands his son to alarm the Greeks, shake his aegis, care for Hector, increase Hector's strength, and let Ilion conquer until the Achaeans flee to the ships and Hellespont. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 5598-5794 | medium | Louhi takes the Sampo to Sariola's hills and copper-bearing mountains, places nine locks on it, and makes three roots grow beneath a mountain, the sandy sea-bed, and a mountain-dwelling. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 12642-12768 | high | The Ark moves amid waves like mountains; Noah calls his son to embark, but the son seeks a mountain against the water, and a wave separates them so he is drowned. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 18598-18731 | medium | "If there were a Koran by which the mountains could be set in motion, or the earth cleft, or the dead be made to speak"; the passage adds that all sovereignty is in God's hands. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 18865-18984 | high | A covenant is recalled in which a mountain is lifted over the people and they are told to hold fast to revelation; Sabbath transgressors are changed into scouted apes as a warning. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 7050-7238 | high | El Aika’s inhabitants are called sinners and made an example; Hedjr rejects God’s messengers and signs, makes secure mountain abodes, and is surprised by an early-morning tempest. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER VI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER VII / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 16130-16184 | medium | Thamd are reminded that God made them successors to Ad, gave them habitation on earth, and that they build castles on plains and cut mountains into houses. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XXVII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXVIII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 28211-28268 | high | After fulfilling the term, Moses journeys with his family toward Egypt and sees fire on the side of Mount Sinai. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXXVIII. / ENTITLED, S.; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 31403-31487 | high | David is described as God's strong servant; mountains praise with him at evening and sunrise, birds gather and return to him, and God establishes his kingdom and grants wisdom and eloquence. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 3853-3902 | medium | Oriental traditions say genii inhabited the world before Adam, fell into corruption, were driven by Eblis into a remote confined region, and were later forced by Tahmrath into the mountains of Kf. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 12340-12383 | medium | Oedipus, son of Laius, solved the Sphinx's riddle; the Sphinx, child of Typhon and Echidna, haunted a mountain near Thebes, then threw itself from a rock, and had a woman's face, bird wings, and lion extremities. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 7395-7479 | medium | Introductory explanation: Perseus changes Atlas into a mountain, finds Andromeda exposed to a monster, kills it, hides the Gorgon’s head beneath seaweed and plants that become coral, thanks the gods, marries Andromeda, and tells of Medusa’s death and serpent hair. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | BOOK THE THIRTEENTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 9935-10029 | medium | Polyphemus says he fears Galatea more than lightning, asks why she loves Acis, threatens to tear Acis apart and scatter his limbs through fields and waves, and compares his slighted passion to Aetna's flames in his breast. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | GREEK FESTIVALS. / ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES. / THESMOPHORIA. / DIONYSIA.; lines 6394-6446 | high | Some Dionysian festivals included mystic observances into which only women called Menades or Bacchantes were initiated. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | VESTALIA. / PART II.--LEGENDS. / CADMUS. / PERSEUS.; lines 6633-6734 | high | Atlas refuses Perseus hospitality because of fear for his golden-fruited orchard and its dragon; Perseus shows Medusa's head and transforms Atlas into a mountain. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS / INTRODUCTION / CHAPTER I: THE BEGINNING / CHAPTER II: ODIN; lines 1298-1437 | high | The piper leads the children to the Koppelberg, which opens to receive them and closes after the last child; the children are never seen in Hamelin again. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | INTRODUCTION / CHAPTER I: THE BEGINNING / CHAPTER II: ODIN / CHAPTER III: FRIGGA; lines 2362-2458 | medium | In Scandinavia the goddess is called Huldra and has attendant wood-nymphs who dance with mortals, show cow tails beneath white garments, protect mountain cattle, and sing melodies. | record |
| Greek | The Odyssey | BOOK XXII / BOOK XXIII / BOOK XXIV / FOOTNOTES:; lines 11059-11172 | medium | The annotator says a visit to the top of Mt. Eryx may clarify the emendation and argues that Marettimo and the Aegadean islands correspond to Odyssey island geography when viewed from there. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto LXXXII. The Departure. / Canto LXXXIII. The Journey Begun. / Canto LXXXV. Guha And Bharat. / Canto XC. The Hermitage.; lines 22780-22932 | high | Bharadvāja answers that Chitrakūṭa stands less than four leagues away; north is the Mandākinī, and between river and hill is Rāma’s leafy cot where the princely pair of brothers live; he tells Bharat to lead the army south. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XI. Dundubhi. / Canto XII. The Palm Trees. / Canto XIV. The Challenge. / Canto XXVI. The Coronation.; lines 40988-41155 | medium | After Sugriva's rite, he reigns again; Rama and Lakshman seek Prasravana hill, where a spacious cave gives them shelter. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XLV. The Departure. / Canto XLVII. The Return. / Canto L. The Enchanted Cave. / Canto LII. The Exit.; lines 44378-44417 | medium | The speaker scaled a mountain height, looked for the Vánars, watched night and day for a hundred seasons, and waited for a foretold hour and chance. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto L. The Enchanted Cave. / Canto LII. The Exit. / Canto LXIV. The Sea. / Canto LXV. The Council.; lines 44721-44745 | medium | “Then sprang the Wind-God’s son” on Mahendra’s crest, and the mountain “rocked and swayed.” | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XLII. The Sally. / Canto XLIII. The Single Combats. / Canto XLIV. The Night. / Canto L. The Broken Spell.; lines 52409-52579 | medium | Wind, red lightning, shaking mountains, rising waves, and uprooted seaside trees create a violent disturbance. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto XLII. The Sally. / Canto XLIII. The Single Combats. / Canto XLIV. The Night. / Canto L. The Broken Spell.; lines 52581-52761 | high | Hanúmán hurls a rock at Dhúmráksha’s car, raises a mountain peak, is struck in the face by the giant’s mace, and kills Dhúmráksha by crushing his head and limbs. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | Canto LX. Kumbhakarna Roused. / Canto LXXIV. The Medicinal Herbs. / Canto LXXV. The Night Attack. / Canto CII. Lakshman Healed.; lines 55124-55282 | medium | Susheṇ tells Rama that Lakshman is not dead and instructs Hanuman to fetch life-, health-, and strength-giving herbs from Mahodaya peak. | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | H. H. WILSON. / THE SUPPLIANT DOVE. / INDEX OF PRINCIPAL NAMES / FOOTNOTES; lines 63467-63548 | medium | “The great pilgrimage to the Himálayas, in order to die there.” | record |
| Hindu | The Ramayan of Valmiki | FOOTNOTES / ILIAD. XVII. 426. / GORRESIO. / MACBETH.; lines 65001-65150 | medium | Parvata means mountain and, in the Vedas, cloud; later mythology treats mountains as replacing clouds as objects attacked by Indra. The feathered king is Garuda. | record |