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Bundahishn
Chapter VIII (4)
Afterwards, about that wonderful shaking out from the earth, they say that a great mountain is the knot of lands; and the passage for the waters within the mountains is the root which is below the mountains; they forsake the upper parts so that they may flow into it, just as the roots of trees pass into the earth; a counterpart (ângunî-aîtak) of the blood in the arteries of men, which gives strength to the whole body.
Mundaka Upanishad
Second Mundaka, First Khanda (9)
Hence come the seas and all the mountains, from him flow the rivers of every kind; hence come all herbs and the juice through which the inner Self...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXIX (17)
And through it the earth was founded upon the water, And from the secret recesses of the mountains come beautiful waters, From the creation of the wor...
The Masnavi
The Mule and the Camel (51-60)
He saw it was formed of a bright emerald, Forming as it were a ring round the world, He said, "Thou mighty hill, what are other hills? Before thee...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto XXVIII (5)
That the disturbance which below is made By exhalations of the land and water, (Which far as may be follow after heat,) Might not upon mankind wage...
Popol Vuh
Part I, Chapter 1 (5)
First the earth was formed, the mountains and the valleys; the currents of water were divided, the rivulets were running freely between the hills,...
Chapter 19: Concerning the Created Heaven, and the Form of the Earth, and of the Water, as also concerning Light and Darkness. Concerning Heaven. (85)
But when the lump of the earth was pressed and compacted together, then thereby the water came to be squeezed and pressed forth: But where the water w...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXXIII (4)
And when it fell to the earth I saw how the earth was swallowed up in a great abyss, and mountains were suspended on mountains, and hills sank down on...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka VI, Khanda 8 (6)
As water is an offshoot, seek after its root, viz. fire. As fire is an offshoot, seek after its root, viz. the True. Yes, all these creatures, O son, ...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto XIV (5)
There is a mountain there, that once was glad With waters and with leaves, which was called Ida; Now 'tis deserted, as a thing worn out. Rhea once...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka III, Khanda 19 (2)
The silver one became this earth, the golden one the sky, the thick membrane (of the white) the mountains, the thin membrane (of the yoke) the mist...
Chapter 19: Concerning the Created Heaven, and the Form of the Earth, and of the Water, as also concerning Light and Darkness. Concerning Heaven. (80)
Another Question is: Why then is the earth so mountainous, hilly, rocky, stony and uneven? Answer.
Book of Enoch
Chapter XVII (7)
I saw the mountains of the darkness of winter and the place whence all the waters of the deep flow.
Chapter 17: Of the lamentable and miserable State and Condition of the corrupt perished Nature, and Original of the four Elements, instead of the holy Government of God. (16)
So in like manner the earth and stones have their descent; for when the Salitter kindled itself in nature, then all became very rugged, thick and dark...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XIV: Greek Plagiarism From the Hebrews. (103)
The mountains tremble, and the earth, the vast Abyss of sea, and towering height of hills, When on them looks the Sovereign's awful eye:
The Conference of the Birds
Invocation (5)
He made the Ocean liquid as a sign of bondage, and the mountain tops are capped with ice for fear of him.
The Conference of the Birds
Invocation (7)
To the mountains he has given peaks for a dagger, and valleys for a belt; so that they lift up their heads in pride.
Chapter 22: Of the Birth or Geniture of the Stars, and Creation of the Fourth Day. (7)
Out of the earth sprang up grass, herbs and trees; and in the earth, silver, gold, and all manner of ores came to be; and in the deep above the earth...
The Secret of the Golden Flower
A Magic Spell for the Far Journey (19)
The way leads from the sacrum upward in a backward- flowing manner to the summit of the creative, and on through the house of the creative; then it...
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (102)
The sweet spring or fountain-water is generated by the driving about or rising up of the spirits, for when the light is generated in the heat, then...
Book of Enoch
Chapter XXVI (2)
And there I saw a holy mountain, ⌈⌈and⌉⌉ underneath the mountain to the east there was a stream and it flowed towards the south.
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