From ancient times the mountain ranges

Have been the focus of mysterious imagination

Of many peoples and their old civilizations.

With peaks and passes, as the highest scale

Of the earthly manifestation, they have been

The only element enabled to touch the skies

And penetrate in the realm behind Heaven's roof.

They were considered to be a source

Mountains have been invested in all times

With a dignity unique to their own nature

And their cult in which a single peak

Or a whole ridge is an object of worship,

Has flourished in different regions.

Even today there are some steady cults

Of the sacred mountains in the eastern lands,

An elaborate mythology of mountains existed

Across a broad range of ancient cultures

Is the subject of newly rewritten stories today.