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Moving mountain. (Mount Kailash)
Mount Kailash, in western Tibet, attracts several thousand pilgrims every year.
On the walls of the southwest corner of the famous gallery of bas-reliefs in Cambodia's Angkor Wat, a carving shows the demon-king Ravana shaking an enormous pyramid-shaped mountain. The mountain is the mythological Mount Kailash, and Ravana is trying to dislodge the Hindu god Shiva who is sitting on its summit with his consort Parvati. The same legend is depicted in temples throughout the Hindu world. Shiva the destroyer and creator is one of the two most worshipped gods in the Hindu pantheon, and Mount Kailash is his home.
Mount Meru, another mythological peak, is thought ...
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