Somewhere the Gods were...

In many legends, savannah, desert, mountain, sky, sea, river, cave…etc is always where gods or oracles stay. I reckon that a place that hasn’t discover by people often become a holy place for gods. Sometimes, some of the places might be a monster’s nest.


Mountain is mysterious for ancient people.

Legendary tales often involved desert or mountain, I wonder why. But I have a few opinions:

Ancient people don’t have advance transportation to go across the deadly desert, maybe someone died while he was passing the desert. Water is rare in a desert, and human need water. But sometimes mirage happens in the middle of desert, and spotted by people. They might think that it was a living thing, but if human can’t live in the middle of a desert, who else? Finally, they said there was something called ‘god’. Some ancient people thought gods were living thing, I guess.

Mountain is always covered by mist; people don’t have advance technology to see through it. So, they imagined that something (someone) doesn’t expect to be discovered, without a serious thinking, they said that is a god. Monster maybe one of the living things on the mountain, and people might think that it was the god. Many kinds of animals live in the forested mountain; some might be uncommon for local villagers, because they maybe haven’t seen this before.

Sky is the most popular place where gods gather together, in human thought. This untouchable thing let them think that it is the most suitable place for a holy god. Clouds and star are the ‘land’ for god, while there are palaces upon the sky for gods to live.

Some creepy place like cave and deep lake might frighten some people; they thought there is some monster or dragon live inside. In conclusion, people imagine where the gods live because of their fear, curiosity and ignorant.