Holy Mountain
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Holy Mountain may refer to:
  • the mytheme or archetype of the world mountain
  • specific peaks identified as sacred mountain
  • in Abrahamic tradition
    • Mount Sinai
      Mount Sinai
      Mount Sinai , also known as Mount Horeb, Mount Musa, Gabal Musa , Jabal Musa meaning "Moses' Mountain", is a mountain near Saint Catherine in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt. A mountain called Mount Sinai is mentioned many times in the Book of Exodus in the Torah and the Bible as well as the Quran...

      , by the Bedouin, is the name of a mountain near Saint Catherine in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt
    • The Temple Mount
      Temple Mount
      The Temple Mount, known in Hebrew as , and in Arabic as the Haram Ash-Sharif , is one of the most important religious sites in the Old City of Jerusalem. It has been used as a religious site for thousands of years...

    • Mount Tabor
      Mount Tabor
      -Places:*Mount Tabor, a hill in Israel near Nazareth believed by many to be the site of the Transfiguration of ChristIn the United States:*Mount Tabor, Indiana, an unincorporated community...

      , located in Lower Galilee, at the eastern end of the Jezreel Valley, 11 miles (18 km) west of the Sea of Galilee, in Israel

Toponymy

  • Mount Athos
    Mount Athos
    Mount Athos is a mountain and peninsula in Macedonia, Greece. A World Heritage Site, it is home to 20 Eastern Orthodox monasteries and forms a self-governed monastic state within the sovereignty of the Hellenic Republic. Spiritually, Mount Athos comes under the direct jurisdiction of the...

    , called the Holy Mountain or Hagion Oros (Ἅγιον Ὄρος), an autonomous monastic republic in Greece
  • The Holy Mountain, a translation of Jebel Barkal
    Jebel Barkal
    Jebel Barkal or Gebel Barkal is a very small mountain located some 400 km north of Khartoum, in Karima town in Northern State in Sudan, on a large bend of the Nile River, in the region called Nubia....

    , a mountain in Nubia
  • Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy (Italy), World Heritage Site

Popular culture

  • The Holy Mountain (1926 film)
    The Holy Mountain (1926 film)
    The Holy Mountain is a 1926 Weimar Republic mountain film directed by Arnold Fanck, starring future propaganda filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl in her first screen appearance as an actress.- External links :*...

    , a German silent film
  • The Holy Mountain (1973 film), a 1973 film directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky
  • Holy Mountain (website)
    Holy Mountain (website)
    Holy Mountain is a 2010 National Film Board of Canada web documentary about Mount Royal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada...

    , a National Film Board of Canada interactive documentary
  • Sleep's Holy Mountain, a 1993 album by the band Sleep
  • The Holy Mountain, a hardcore punk band currently signed to No Idea Records
  • "Holy Mountains
    Holy Mountains
    "Holy Mountains" is the 8th song on the album Hypnotize. The song lyrics are about the Armenian Genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire government in 1915...

    ", a song by the band System of a Down on the album Hypnotize
    Hypnotize (album)
    The album was initially going to start with a Middle Eastern style instrumental track entitled "Hezze", which Malakian stated was one of his favorite songs on the record prior its release. It was dropped at the last minute because the group wanted to open the album with a heavy song and because the...


  • Holy Mountain Records, a Portland, Oregon based record label
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