Mountains
place · 8 works · 10 mentions · 14 anchored passages
mountains · the mountain · the mountains · a high mountain · bull-like mountains · heights · hill · the great mountain · the mount · the mountain country
spoken of as
2 expressionsthe mountain5 mentions
Adversus Marcionem (Latin) · Who Is the Rich Man That Shall Be Saved? (Greek) · Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa (Sanskrit) · Letters (Greek)
certainly he ascends into the mountain and there passes the night in prayer, and surely is heard by the Father.
in the texts
Rigveda
Mountains personified as firm, bull-like entities asked to hear the prayer.
May the bull-like mountains hear us, those of firm abode, gladdened by Iḷā;
Let your great hymns go forth to Viṣṇu accompanied by the Maruts, born on the mountains — Evayāmarut;
by their will, O Maruts, that indomitable power of yours, their giving in greatness — these indomitable ones are like mountains.
Adversus Marcionem
The mountain where Christ prays at night and teaches, matched to prophetic imagery.
certainly he ascends into the mountain and there passes the night in prayer, and surely is heard by the Father.
For this too you ought to have blushed at most of all, that you allow him to be seen with Moses and Elias on the retirement of the mountain, whose destroyer he had come.
Letters
Mountainous region used as a site for synod meetings.
A suitable day for the synod we hope to find after the meetings that are to be appointed by us in the mountain country;
But when I missed that meeting, I longed to see you on the mountain;
Who Is the Rich Man That Shall Be Saved?
The wilderness stronghold to which the young man and his band of robbers retreat.
for he turned out wicked and abandoned, and, in sum, a robber, and now, instead of the Church, he has taken to the mountain with a like band of soldiery.
Sāmaveda
Mountains, appearing both as the mythic site Indra breaks open and as Soma's dwelling place.
When you, O Indra, split open the great mountain and let the streams flow down, when you smote the Dānavas.
The roaring one standing on the mountains, Soma has flowed around the filter;
the dexterous one stands on the mountains in the waters;
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
An unnamed mountain near Janasthāna searched by Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa.
The two sons of Daśaratha searched thoroughly for Sītā — the slopes of that mountain, its caves and its peaks.
Having searched the mountain in every direction, Rāma spoke to Lakṣmaṇa.
"Show me Sītā, O mountain, she of golden hue and golden radiance — before I shatter all your slopes to ruin.
Anabasis
Mountain terrain associated with the army's route and with a plundering expedition.
how the mountains which we have passed through, if such a throng of peltasts are to be following at our heels?
It so chanced that the army was out foraging when he arrived, while certain individuals had gone in quest of plunder to a different place in the mountains and had secured a large number of sheep;
Cyropaedia
High terrain in Armenia that can shelter the Armenian king but can also be occupied to block his escape.
And an eagle flying up from the east caught sight of the hare as it ran and swooping down struck it, seized it, and carried it up, then bore it away to a hill not far off and disposed of his prey at his pleasure.
do you, Chrysantas, when you have had as much rest as you reasonably need, take half of the Persians who are with us, and following the mountain road take possession of the heights to which they say he flees for refuge when anything alarms him.
Now they say that these mountains are thickly wooded, and so I have hopes of your not being seen.