Mountain
The mountain denotes the world axis rising toward heaven, dwelling of gods and goal of pilgrimage, climbed to absorb what its summit touches.
Our paraphrase of what the sources say it carries.
At a glance
- Type
- Image
- Group
- Creation and Cosmos / Earth
- Borne by
- 2 figures (1 is this, 1 carries it)
- Traditions
- Japanese folklore (1)Philippine folklore (1)
- Same group
- Stone
Figures that bear it
A model judged each figure against its own description, one term at a time. Is: the figure is a kind of this thing. Bears: it carries the thing or is marked by it. What a figure does is filed under motifs and powers. Open "why" for the sentence the judgement rests on.
- Kinabalu is Philippine folklore
why
The Bornean mountain personified, who took a duel of blows from a boastful Philippine peak and was still standing afterwards.
- Daidarabotchi bears Japanese folklore
why
From Japanese folklore, Daidarabotchi is a giant so large it can carry mountains.