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The Gods' Mountains

A ten‑minute journey across the world’s most revered peaks, revealing how ancient peoples anchored the divine to the earth.

Chapters

0:07 Sacred Peaks Across Cultures
2:10 Olympus: Greece’s Celestial Summit
3:01 Near Eastern Mountains: Sinai, Ararat, and Barkal
5:04 Asian Axis Mundi: Kailash and Meru

On-screen text

0:07 Sacred Peaks Across Cultures
0:14 Sacred Peaks Across Cultures
0:31 Kailash: Buddhist axis mundi Historical record · Kangyur, vol. 9 (Tibetan Buddhist canon)
0:49 Xuanzang’s account of Kailash Historical record · Xuanzang, Great Tang Records on the Western Regions (7th c.)
1:07 Meru: Vedic world‑axis Historical record · Rigveda 1.22
1:25 Meru in the Mahabharata Historical record · Mahabharata, Book 3, Section 188
1:43 Herodotus on Olympus Historical record · Herodotus, Histories 7.180
2:01 Pausanias on Olympus rites Historical record · Pausanias, Description of Greece 8.3.2
2:10 Olympus: Greece’s Celestial Summit
2:17 Olympus: Greece’s Celestial Summit
2:34 Herodotus on Olympus Historical record · Herodotus, Histories 7.180
2:52 Pausanias on Olympus rites Historical record · Pausanias, Description of Greece 8.3.2
3:01 Near Eastern Mountains: Sinai, Ararat, and Barkal
3:08 Near Eastern Mountains: Sinai, Ararat, and Barkal
3:25 Exodus: Ten Commandments Tradition / scripture · Book of Exodus 19‑20
3:43 Egyptian reference to Sinai The Institute's interpretation · Egyptian Expedition Inscriptions, Sinai Peninsula, c. 1500 BCE (Egyptian Antiquities Organization)
4:01 Shalmaneser on Ararat Historical record · Assyrian Annals of Shalmaneser III, BM 12047
4:19 Urartian Ararat inscription Historical record · Urartian inscription of King Argishti I, Erebuni, 785 BCE
4:37 Taharqa on Jebel Barkal Historical record · Taharqa Stele, Louvre E 1120
4:55 Reisner's finds at Barkal Historical record · Excavation Report, George A. Reisner, Jebel Barkal, 1916‑1919
5:04 Asian Axis Mundi: Kailash and Meru
5:28 The Institute reads: Mount Kailash, abode of Buddha Demchok (Kangyur, vol. 9) Historical record · Kangyur, vol. 9 (Tibetan Buddhist canon)
5:49 The Institute reads: Xuanzang saw a towering white mountain in the west (Great Tang Records) Historical record · Xuanzang, Great Tang Records on the Western Regions (7th c.)
6:10 The Institute reads: Rigveda calls Meru the lofty central pillar (Rigveda 1.22) Historical record · Rigveda 1.22
6:32 The Institute reads: Meru, throne of the gods (Mahabharata, Book 3, Section 188) Historical record · Mahabharata, Book 3, Section 188

Sources

Historical record: Kangyur, vol. 9 (Tibetan Buddhist canon) · Xuanzang, Great Tang Records on the Western Regions (7th c.) · Rigveda 1.22 · Mahabharata, Book 3, Section 188 · Herodotus, Histories 7.180 · Pausanias, Description of Greece 8.3.2 · Assyrian Annals of Shalmaneser III, BM 12047 · Urartian inscription of King Argishti I, Erebuni, 785 BCE · Taharqa Stele, Louvre E 1120 · Excavation Report, George A. Reisner, Jebel Barkal, 1916‑1919

Tradition / scripture: Book of Exodus 19‑20

The Institute's interpretation: Egyptian Expedition Inscriptions, Sinai Peninsula, c. 1500 BCE (Egyptian Antiquities Organization)

Sound: synthesized ambient (wind, drone, water) (CC0 — made by SoapBox). Made in 200 s of CPU.