Mother Goddess Everest

   Steiner said that, "If one traces the development of the earth [back], ...one comes upon increasingly refined material conditions of our planet.

     The substances which later became solid were previously in a fluid, still earlier, in a vaporous and steam-like, and in an even more remote past, in the most refined (etheric) condition.

     The decreasing temperature caused the hardening of substances.... 
... the most refined etheric condition of the substances of our earthly dwelling place. Man first entered upon the earth in this epoch of its development. Before that, he belonged to other worlds... a so-called astral or soul world.

     The beings of this world did not lead an external, (physical) bodily existence. Neither did man. He had already developed the image consciousness ....  had feelings and desires. But all this was enclosed in a soul body. Only to the clairvoyant eye would such a man have been perceptible."

Acropolis hill

Kirk Douglas - Climbing The Mountain

The Mountain

The White Mountain is the name for Taniquetil in the world of mortals, the loftiest peak of Middle-earth geography in Tolkien's THE LORD OF THE RINGS. It lay on the eastern borders of Valinor, and on its peak stood the halls of Manwë and Varda.

U.S. Capitol Architecture
Rotundra
Statuary Hall
Latrobe, designer of the chambers of the U.S. Congress and Supreme Court
Poseidon and The U. S. Supreme Court [Page from WCM Expo Special
 

 

The Munich Filmmuseum Review German film pioneer, Dr. Arnold Fanck, the discoverer of Leni Riefenstahl and Luis Trenker, considered the founder of the "Bergfilm" (mountain film) genre. He is the director of such classics as The Holy Mountain (1926), The White Hell of Piz Palu (1929), and Universal's S.O.S. Eisberg (1933).Filmmuseum's newly discovered and restored print of The Wonders of Skiing (1920), a film previously considered lost, and Battling the Mountain (1921), with the newly discovered music by Paul Hindemith, are of great interest. above, Nicholas Roerich - White Himalayas

     Seven Years In Tibet  A true and faithful account of several years in the life of Austrian Heinrich Harrer. In 1939, he set out with fellow mountaineers to climb Nanga Parbat, one of the highest of all the Himalayan peaks.  When Britain went to war, Heinrich (Brad Pitt) was arrested and held in a prison camp until he and another climber, Peter Aufschnaiter (David Thewlis) escaped. The young Dalai Lama, who lived in the Tibetan city of Lhasa, gained an interest in the Western world when he invited the men into his spiritual center at the roof of the world. Unforgettable landscapes, adventure, and, of course, acting. Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud, 1997    

     What a view! Alan Lee picture of Caradhas (Redhorn).  Preparation for the climb upward was exhilarating, suggests Ian McKellen. "I knew, of course, that New Zealand is proudly nuclear free, but I was unprepared for its wilderness of rainforests and the alpine ranges where Edmund Hillary prepared himself for Everest, 50 years ago." -Ian McKellen, asked about filming The Lord of The Rings at nature sites in New Zealand.

     Earlier, McKellen had been asked to join the troupe. BBC interview comment, and wheels rolling: What made you decide you wanted to play Gandalf?

     "What convinced me was not my knowledge of "The Lord of the Rings", which didn't exist, but Peter Jackson and [Jackson's wife and co-writer] Fran Walsh's enthusiasm. They came to my house in London and showed me some of the initial sketches for the design, which were terribly impressive. They were already half way through the journey, but to be asked to join them on this expedition - akin to climbing Everest cinematically - I knew it would be something I'd regret if I didn't do it."

The story of the first ring, taken from TOLKIEN'S RING, by David Day and illustrated by Alan Lee, as follows from this text excerpt:

     ...Prometheus was the deity who shaped men from clay and breathed into them the breath of life. Furthermore, it was Prometheus who brought to men the gift of fire, for in their beginning they lived in darkness...

     The Olympian gods were greatly displeased... In wrath, Zeus commanded Hephaestos to forge a great chain of unbreakable adamantine, the iron of the gods.... he commanded Prometheus be taken ... and upon the mountain called the Caucasus be chained. To that rock, Zeus swore, Prometheus would forever be bound. To Prometheus, Zeus sent a great eagle and a vulture of immense size. By these cruel birds, Prometheus's side was pierced and his liver torn out. Each night his liver grew again, only to be torn from him the next day... Prometheus was filled with eternal pain.

     Yet Prometheus endured... As the long ages passed, it is said that the gods became less cruel, and though their treatment of men was not always fair or good, many among that mortal race they came to favour and even love. Between gods and men there grew a bond and a union, and from that union came many offspring. Mightiest of all of these was Heracles, the son of Zeus.

     Zeus had come at last to regret his punishment of Prometheus. However, he was restrained by his own unbreakable oath of eternal bondage... Zeus knew that only Heracles possessed the strength to break the chains of adamantine; and the courage to slay the eagle and the vulture.

     When Prometheus was at last freed, Zeus spoke to him in a voice of thunder. Zeus swore that he would both keep his oath of bondage, yet allow Prometheus to keep his freedom. So Zeus took from the chain of adamantine a broken link, and from Mount Caucasus he took a fragment of rock. With his immortal hand, Zeus welded the stone to the link. He then took the hand of Prometheus and about his finger he closed the link of adamantine. By this device Zeus kept his oath to chain the Titan to the rock of Caucasus forever, and yet he fulfilled his promise to let Prometheus walk free.

     This was how the first ring was made. Afterwards, it is said, men came to wear rings to honour Prometheus, the bringer of fire and the father of man. It is claimed that the ring is a sign of the smith who is master of fire, and the magician who is master of life. And those who are kings of men wear the ring as a sign of their descent from Prometheus and the Titans who once ruled the earth.

 
The Coral Castle [Rock Gate Park]

 
Kesey and Further, The Bus

Go to the mountains and get their good tidings.
-John Muir

Interested in Ian McKellen and Everest program?

Interested in Liam Neeson Everest video?   Everest (IMAX) (1998) 

See scales up the side in great flicks:  Tom Cruise from ‘MI-2’

 Clint Eastwood in ‘The Eiger Sanction’   ~Read

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* Lodge Wars* with chart for A. Crowley

Robert Redford in 'The Clearing'

 William Shatner
in  'Star Trek III'Climbing steps of Mount Saleya*; 'Star Trek IV’, 'Star Trek V The Final Frontier' [DVD Collector Edition, Released: October 14, 2003]

The Song Remains The Same *Jimmy Page, Scotland

 Sly Stallone
‘Cliff Hanger’   BD: 06/07/1946 Sun 14°15 Moonchild and Ascendant Sagittarius 28°33, Jupiter in Libra
 

The Ten Commandments ~ Charlton Heston

Elijah Wood, 'The Lord of The Ring' Trilogy
BD:  28/01/1981
Sun Aquarius 8°45, Jupiter in Libra 

Willow - Val Kilmer
 photo book

Wizards on the Mountain &  The Lord of The Rings- links 

* Vulcan - Temple on Mt. Saleya
- Star Trek III Mt. Saleya
- the  High Priestess on Mt. Saleya  If you wish to urge Paramount into making an official special enhanced reedited version of
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, go HERE  and sign the petition! Trek fan may unofficially restore part of Star Trek V!

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