Sentence examples for mountain abode from inspiring English sources

Peter is struck with horror, for the Ilsenstein is the mountain abode of a horrible witch who rides on a broomstick, lures children to her gingerbread house, and bakes them into gingerbread.

With the word mountain (ri) ne denotes the mountain abode of a regional god (Huber 1999a).

Local people also referred to chu-dak (water owner), shing-dak (wood owner) and more generally zhi-dak (foundation owner) based in mountain abodes, and a term sometimes used instead of yul-lha.

In the 17th century the well-known Tertön Pema Lingpa of Bumthang, who founded many monasteries in various parts of Bhutan, was also instrumental in creating religious and secular dance forms from his conception of the 'Zandog Pelri' (the Copper Colored mountain), which was the abode of the Guru Padmasambahva (which is the same place as the Paro Taktsang or Tiger's nest).

Wooded ravines and the valleys of the mountainous steppe regions provide the abode of the argali, a mountain sheep, along with mountain goats, deer, and snow leopards.

The Himalayas (from the Sanskrit words hima, "snow," and alaya, "abode"), the loftiest mountain system in the world, form the northern limit of India.

Kubera then settled on Gandhamandana mountain, near Mount Kailash — the cosmological abode of the god Shiva in the Himalayas.

Since ancient times the vast glaciated heights have attracted the attention of the pilgrim mountaineers of India, who coined the Sanskrit name Himalaya from ("snow") and ("abode")—for this great mountain system.

The construction of stone pyramids is based on native beliefs that mountains and high places are the abode of ancestral spirits or hyangs.

The residents of Sikkim have traditionally viewed the mountain as both a god and the abode of gods.

The other locations are Kailash in heaven (actually Kailash is a mountain on earth in the Himalayas, believed to have the abode of Ganesha's parents Shiva and Parvati) and Adi-Shesha's palace in Patala (underworld).