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VOLCANO GODS

VOLCANO GODS......and their commonalities.....

BROUGHT PEOPLE OUT OF BONDAGE

OFFERINGS / SACRIFICES / APPEASEMENT

also a holy mountain for the Maasai people, just like Namibia’s Ovahimba people believe in their holy fire. He said the Maasai people use the mountain as a site to conduct rituals such as sacrifices and prayers

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The ( Inca ) children were sacrificed as part of a religious ritual, known as capacocha. They walked hundreds of miles to and from ceremonies in Cuzco and were then taken to the summit of Llullaillaco (yoo-yeye-YAH-co), given chicha (maize beer), and, once they were asleep, placed in underground niches, where they froze to death. Only beautiful, healthy, physically perfect children were sacrificed, and it was an honor to be chosen. According to Inca beliefs, the children did not die, but joined their ancestors and watched over their villages from the mountaintops like angels.

The name "

Fuji

" most likely derives from an Ainu word meaning "fire" or "deity of fire". The Japanese believed that the god was very

BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL/

CHARIOTS / CARRIAGES

GOD THE ALMIGHTY

CHIMNEY / FURNACE

ANGER/REVENGE

volcanic eruptions

and her older sister Namakaokahai had a fight.

Mt. Fuji is the source of many myths, underscoring its importance in Japanese society; it has been the home of multiple deities, including the goddess Sengen, also known as the Goddess of Fuji, whose temple was once said to reside on the summit of the mountain

(1) . In the days of religious pilgrimages to Mt. Fuji, it is said that Sengen would throw from the mountain any pilgrims that were impure of heart (1).

Many interpret

an eruption on Merapi

as a sign that the volcano

MIRACULOUS PREGNANCY AND BIRTH OF A SON

SERPENTS / RIVERS OF FIRE

Pompeii - Casa de Centenario









ANTHROPOMORPHISM

OFFERINGS OR BURIALS IN CAVES

offerings placed in sacred caves

high on the slopes of the mountain.

The poet Virgil claimed that Mount Etna, in Sicily, is the place where the gods buried the giant

Enceladus

.

LOVERS / SISTERS / WIVES

From: Java a Lonely Planet travel survival kit by Peter Turner.

CREATION STORY

The Koryak believe that creation began when the great raven swooped over the sea and dropped a feather, thus creating Kamchatka. Once he established land he created men to inhabit his creation. After some time Kutkh created a woman and placed her within the land for the men to continue creation. She was very beautiful and all of the men fell in love with her, desiring her affection deeply. As the men died they became mountains, turning the originally flat land into mountains. The mountains turned to volcanoes as the hearts of the men with in each mountain still burnt with fiery love for the woman. It is the hearts of these original men that created the mountains, which shaped the peninsula into what it is today.

The creation of Mt. Fuji is itself a matter of legend in Japan - the tale goes that the mountain was born in a single day.

The Modoc Indians of northern California have lived in the area a long time and have seen the volcano erupt. Their oral tradition explains how the volcano formed. The Chief of the Sky Spirits was cold in the Above World. One day he used a rotating stone to drill a hole in the sky. Once the hole was finished he pushed in snow and ice. The snow and ice piled up and almost reached the sky. Then, the Chief of the Sky Spirits stepped down to the Earth. He created the trees, rivers, animals, fish, and birds.

BURIAL POSITIONS

BURIAL PLACE

The Ancient Egyptians buried their dead in tombs in the hills.

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BANNING OF NAME