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Sieidis (Northern Sami: sieidi, Finnish: seita, Swedish: sejte, Russian: сейд) are Sami cultural items, usually a rock with unusual shape. Sieidis are found in nature in certain sacred places, for example at the sea or river beaches or on the mountain. [1]
Power: Many sacred mountains are revered as places of awesome power manifested in various ways – natural, supernatural, and even political. [ 4 ] Deity or abode of deity: As places of power and heavens on high, mountains serve as abodes of gods and goddesses, often situated at the center of the cosmos, world, or region.
The mountain bears the significant feature of a traditional sacred mountain. I.e., it dominates the landscape due to shape or height. The conventional Sámi religion is dead, and only elements survive through local vestiges and neo-shamanism; a good case can be made that the mountain is no longer sacred to most Sámi in the traditional sense.
A sacred mountain mentioned in the Puranas. Mount Meru: The sacred five-peaked mountain of Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist cosmology. It is considered to be the center of all the physical, metaphysical, and spiritual universes. Naraka: A realm resembling Hell in Indian religions where souls are temporarily punished before reincarnation. Nirvana
A sacred natural site is a natural feature or a large area of land or water having special spiritual significance to peoples and communities. [1] Sacred natural sites consist of all types of natural features including mountains, hills, forests, groves, trees, rivers, lakes, lagoons, caves, islands and springs.
Also the place of the lavra of Saint Gerasimos. Near Jericho and Qasr al-Yahud. Jacob's well in Nablus. Jericho – the site of the Mount of Temptation and of the Sycomore Tree of Zacchaeus. Mar Saba, the most important and largest monastery in the Holy Land and the resting place of Saint Sabas which was also the monk who built this monastery.
Sacred mountains of West Asia (8 C, 18 P) Pages in category "Sacred mountains" The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total.
Sacred mountains of Greece (2 C, 9 P) I. Sacred mountains of India (10 P) Sacred mountains of Indonesia (1 C, 5 P) Sacred mountains of Ireland (7 P) J.