Mount Horeb. Moses with tablets of the Ten Commandments, painting by Rembrandt, (1659) Mount Horeb, Hebrew: חֹרֵב, Greek in the Septuagint: χωρηβ, Latin in the Vulgate: Horeb, is the mountain at which the book of Deuteronomy in the Hebrew Bible states that the Ten Commandments were given to Moses by God. It is described in two places (Exodus 3:1, 1 Kings 19:8) as הַר הָאֱלֹהִים the "Mountain of God". The mountain is also called the Mountain of YHWH.[1] In other biblical passages, these events are described as having transpired at Mount Sinai. Etymology[edit] Occurrences[edit] Moses Striking the Rock at Horeb, engraving by Gustave Doré from "La Sainte Bible", 1865 The name Horeb first occurs at Exodus 3:1, with the story of Moses and the Burning bush.
Exodus 17:6 describes the incident when the Israelites were in the wilderness without water. In Deuteronomy, Horeb is mentioned several times in the account of the wanderings of the Israelites in the wilderness, Deuteronomy 1:2, 1:6, 1:19. Location[edit] Biblical Mount Sinai. The approach to Mount Sinai, painting by David Roberts According to the Book of Exodus, Mount Sinai (Hebrew: הר סיני, Har Sinai) is the mountain at which the Ten Commandments were given to Moses by God. In the Book of Deuteronomy, these events are described as having transpired at Mount Horeb. According to the documentary hypothesis, the name "Sinai" is only used in the Torah by the Jahwist and Priestly source, whereas Horeb is only used by the Elohist and Deuteronomist.[1] "Sinai" and "Horeb" are generally considered to refer to the same place, although there is a small body of opinion that the two names may refer to different locations.
Hebrew Bible texts describe Mount Sinai in terms which some scholars[who?] Believe may describe the mountain as a volcano, although the word is omitted. Etymology[edit] 'Out of the Sinai desert', painting by Eugen Bracht, c. 1880 Regarding the Sumerian Sin deity assumption, William F. Other names[edit] Also: Biblical description[edit] Critical views[edit] Dindsenchas. Dindsenchas or Dindshenchas (modern spellings: Dinnseanchas or Dinnsheanchas), meaning "lore of places"[1] (the modern Irish word dinnseanchas means "topography")[2] is a class of onomastic text in early Irish literature, recounting the origins of place-names and traditions concerning events and characters associated with the places in question.
Since many of the legends related concern the acts of mythic and legendary figures, the dindsenchas is an important source for the study of Irish mythology. The literary corpus of the dindsenchas comprises about 176 poems plus a number of prose commentaries and independent prose tales (the so-called "prose dindsenchas" is often distinguished from the "verse", "poetic" or "metrical dindsenchas"). As a compilation the dindsenchas has survived in two different recensions. The first recension is found in the Book of Leinster, a manuscript of the 12th century, with partial survivals in a number of other manuscript sources. Edward J. References[edit] Mount Athos. Mount Athos (/ˈæθɒs/; Greek: Όρος Άθως, Óros Áthos [ˈoros ˈaθos]) is a mountain and peninsula in Greece. A World Heritage Site and autonomous polity in the Hellenic Republic, Athos is home to 20 stavropegial Eastern Orthodox monasteries under the direct jurisdiction of the patriarch of Constantinople.
Today Greeks commonly refer to Mount Athos as the "Holy Mountain" (Greek: Άγιον Όρος, Agion Oros [ˈaʝ(i)o(n) ˈoros]). In Classical times, while the mountain was called Athos, the peninsula was called Akté (Ἀκτὴ) (sometimes Acte or Akte). Geography[edit] Map of Mount Athos The peninsula, the easternmost "leg" of the larger Chalkidiki peninsula, protrudes 50 kilometres (31 mi)[3] into the Aegean Sea at a width of between 7 and 12 kilometres (4.3 and 7.5 mi) and covers an area of 335.6 square kilometres (129.58 sq mi). The actual Mount Athos has steep, densely forested slopes reaching up to 2,033 metres (6,670 ft). Access[edit] History[edit] Antiquity[edit] Early Christianity[edit] Big Manitou Falls. Big Manitou Falls, the water's brown tint is caused by minerals Coordinates: Manitou. Manitou are the spirit beings of Algonquian groups of Native Americans. This spirit is seen as a contactable person as well as an idea.
Everything has its own manitou—every plant, every stone, even machines. [citation needed] Aashaa Monetoo = good spirit, Otshee Monetoo= Bad Spirit. The Great Spirit "Aasha Monetoo", gave the land, when the world was created, to the Indians (in particular, the Shawnee). [1] The term was already widespread at the time of European contact. In some Algonquian traditions, the term Gitche Manitou is used to refer to a Great Spirit or supreme being. In the shamanistic traditions the manitous (or manidoog or manidoowag) are connected to achieve a desired effect, like plant manitous for healing or the buffalo manitou for a good hunt. Manitoulin Island means "spirit island".
The Fox Indians believed that the manitou dwelled in the stones of the sweat lodge. See also[edit] References[edit] Sacred waters. Ubiquitous and perpetual fixations with water occur across religious traditions. It tends to be a central element in the creations accounts of almost every culture with mythological, cosmological, and theological myths (Altman 2002:3-6,13-20). In this way, many groups characterize water as "living water", or the "water of life" (Varner 2004:19, Altman 2002:2, Strang 2004:83). This means that it gives life and is the fundamental element from which life arises. Each religious or cultural group that feature waters as sacred substances tends to favor certain categorizations of some waters more than others, usually those that are most accessible to them and that best integrate into their rituals (Altman 2002:3).
Rivers[edit] Ganges River[edit] The Ganges is said to purify the soul of negative karma, corporeal sins, and even impurities from previous lives (Nelson 2008:102). The Ganges is one of the most highly favored sites for funerary rituals in India. Lakes and underground water[edit] Aeaea. Aeaea or Eëa (/iːˈiːə/ ee-EE-ə or /əˈiːə/ ə-EE-ə; Ancient Greek: Αἰαία, Aiaía [aɪ.áɪ.a]) was a mythological island said to be the home of the sorceress Circe. In Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus tells Alcinous that he stayed here for a year on his way home to Ithaca. The modern Greek scholar Ioannis Kakridis insists that any attempt at realistic identification is vain, arguing that Homer vaguely located Aeaea somewhere in the eastern part of his world, perhaps near Colchis, since Circe was the sister of Aeëtes, king of Colchis, and because the goddess Dawn had her palace there The somewhat inconsistent geography of Homer's Odyssey is often considered more mythic than literal, but the geography of the Alexandrian scholar and poet, Apollonius of Rhodes, is more specific.
Before leaving Aeaea, Odysseus was given instructions by Circe about how to cross the ocean[3] and assisted by North Wind to reach the underworld: Other hypothetical locations[edit] Aeaea in literature[edit] References[edit] Χώρα. Ancient Greek[edit] Alternative forms[edit] χώρη (khōrē) (Ionic) Etymology[edit] Uncertain. No apparent cognates outside of Greek. Pronunciation[edit] (5th BC Attic): IPA: /kʰɔ͜ɔ́ra͜a/(1st BC Egyptian): IPA: /kʰóːraː/(4th AD Koine): IPA: /xóra/(10th AD Byzantine): IPA: /xóra/(15th AD Constantinopolitan): IPA: /xóɾa/ Noun[edit] χώρα • (khōra) (genitive χώρας) f, first declension location, place, spot (see Latin locus)the proper placeone's place in lifepiece of land: tract, land, fieldcountry (opposite town), countrysidecountry, nation Inflection[edit] References[edit] Greek[edit] Noun[edit] χώρα • (chóra) f (plural χώρες) Declension[edit] See also[edit] πατρίδα f (patrída, “homeland”)χωριό n (chorió, “village”)
Τόπος. Ancient Greek[edit] Pronunciation[edit] (5th BC Attic): IPA: /tópos/(1st BC Egyptian): IPA: /tópos/(4th AD Koine): IPA: /tópos/(10th AD Byzantine): IPA: /tópos/(15th AD Constantinopolitan): IPA: /tópos/ Noun[edit] τόπος • (topos) (genitive τόπου) m, second declension Inflection[edit] Descendants[edit] References[edit] Greek[edit] Noun[edit] τόπος • (tópos) m (plural τόποι) Declension[edit] See also[edit] κοινός τόπος.