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	Sacred Sites of Japan and Mt Fuji (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The divinities of the mountains were therefore thought to act as regulators of the flow of life-giving waters and to oversee the entire process of the agricultural cycle.
		Farmers believed that the mountain spirits came down from the high peaks in early spring to guard and nourish the rice fields and then returned to the mountains in the fall (in fact the spirit of the mountain, yama no kami, and the spirit of the rice field, ta no kami, were interchangeable).
		Ascents of the mountains were conceived of as metaphorical ascents on the path of spiritual enlightenment, with each stage in the climb representing a stage in the passage through the realms of existence formulated by Buddhism.
	www.sacredsites.com /asia/japan/introdution_sacred_japan.html (2981 words)

	Dewa Sanzan - Guide360.com Travel Guide
		Dewa Sanzan (出羽三山, [1]) is in the northern Tohoku region of the main Japanese island Honshu.
		Dewa Sanzan means "Three Mountains of Dewa" and indeed comprises the three sacred mountains of Haguro-san (羽黒山), Gas-san (月山) and Yudono-san (湯殿山), clustered together in the ancient province of Dewa (modern-day Yamagata prefecture).
		Holy to the Japanese Shinto religion and especially the mountain ascetic cult of Shugendo, Dewa Sanzan are a popular pilgrimage site visited by many, including famed haiku poet Matsuo Basho on his Narrow Road to the Deep North.
	www.guide360.com /destinations/Dewa_Sanzan (943 words)

	Balinese Religion and Culture
		It is believed that Bali’s highest mountain Gunung Agung is the dwelling place of the gods and the ancestors; it is revered as the "Mother" mountain and is highly sacred to the Balinese.
		The religious rites of the Balinese consist of the human rites (manusa yadnya), the rites of the dead (pitra yadnya), rites of the gods or temple rites (dewa yadnya), rites of demonic forces (butha yadnya) and ordainment rites (rsi yadnya).
		At the age of three months, the baby is allowed to touch the ground and is given a name, and it has entered the earthly world and the ceremonies are to welcome and guide the child during his or her first steps in life.
	www.bookbali.com /about/culture.htm (5040 words)

	Holy Mountains & Sacred Shrines in Japanese Buddhism & Shintoism
		The cult of mountain asceticism developed rapidly in the Heian period and the mountain's religion was a form of Shinto/ Buddhist syncretism.
		In addition to the groups of Shugendo believers who ascend the mountain to perform their rites, local farmers also worship there early in the spring as it is believed that the mountain's god descends to the rice fields in the spring and ensures fertility in the coming year.
		Three mountain areas in particular, Yoshino-Omine, Kumano Sanzan, and Koyasan, came to be revered as sacred places associated with certain religious groups.
	www.onmarkproductions.com /html/holy-mountains-sacred-shrines.html (4908 words)

	Chapter 8, Living Water to Light the Journey - Martin Roth Christian Commentary
		I was at Dewa Sanzan - the three Dewa mountains - in Yamagata prefecture in northern Japan.
		For three days our motley group—a stressed-out policeman, a young woman who could not find a husband, an irrigation supplies salesman on the verge of a breakdown, a couple of students, and a dozen others—hiked through the mountains with our yamabushi leader, all dressed in baggy white garb and with straw sandals on our feet.
		We climbed to the summit of one of the mountains, past a giant 600-year-old pagoda, to worship at an ancient wooden shrine, and though it was mid-summer the building was shrouded in a chill fog.
	www.martinrothonline.com /lw8.htm (4225 words)

	Japan Omnibus - Sightseeing - Tohoku Area - South Tohoku
		Dewa Sanzan (Three Mountains of Dewa) consists of Mt. Haguro, Mt. Gassan and Mt. Yudono.
		The town of Yonezawa in the south of the prefecture is known for its beef, a delicacy of the region, and various handicrafts and silk fabrics>.
		The three larger lakes are Hibara, Onogawa and Akimoto.
	www.japan-zone.com /omnibus/tohoku_s.shtml (906 words)

	Three Mountains of Dewa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Three Mountains of Dewa (出羽三山 Dewa Sanzan) are the three sacred mountains of Mt.
		Yudono (湯殿山 Yudono-san), clustered together in the ancient province of Dewa (modern-day Yamagata prefecture).
		Holy to the Japanese Shinto religion and especially the mountain ascetic cult of Shugendo, Dewa Sanzan are a popular pilgrimage site visited by many, including famed haiku poet Matsuo Bashō.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Three_Mountains_of_Dewa (118 words)

	DEWA SANZAN: On a pathway to the divine \| American Buddhist Net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		DEWA SANZAN: On a pathway to the divine
		For a holy mountain experience with a decidedly less oppressive character and much more in the way of outstanding scenery, it would be better to make the effort to get to Dewa Sanzan.
		Yamagata is rather remote, but Dewa Sanzan,with its combination of grand nature and intriguing culture and history, is one of the most interesting spots in the Tohoku region, and well worth going out of your way to visit.
	americanbuddhist.net /node/2846 (1125 words)

	Dewa Sanzan travel guide - Wikitravel
		Dewa Sanzan (出羽三山) is in the northern Tohoku region of the main Japanese island Honshu.
		See and Do The traditional approach is to hike across all three mountains, although most visitors opt for a bus from Haguro-san to Gas-san as the distance is quite long.
		Accomodation is also available at the 8th station and in a mountain hut near the Gas-san summit; reserve in advance if you want to be assured a place for the night.
	wikitravel.org /en/Dewa_Sanzan (949 words)

	Tohoku - World Travel Guide
		Dewa Sanzan — three mountains holy to the ascetic cult of Shugendo
		While JR has a near-monopoly for connecting all major towns together, the stretch of ordinary track between Morioka and Hachinohe now belongs to a private company, and there are bits and pieces of private railways around the larger towns.
		Highlights include the temples of Hiraizumi, the holy mountains of Dewa Sanzan and the secluded hot springs of the Shimokita Peninsula.
	www.world-travel-guide.net /index.php?title=Tohoku (834 words)

	Natural Resources News- DEWA
		DEWA is at the "bottom of the watershed" (the park straddles the mainstem of the Delaware River) so we must work with outside groups to protect park values.
		DEWA is in an urbanizing area and many actions that occur outside of our boundaries have an impact "inside" the Recreation Area.
		As it leaves the Appalachian Plateau at Port Jervis, New York, the slope of the Delaware River flattens somewhat and increases its meander pattern.
	www.nps.gov /archive/dewa/InDepth/NRnews/natnews1.html (1531 words)

	Danube River Basin - UNEP/DEWA~Europe > Publication > Freshwater in Europe
		About one-third of the Danube river basin is mountainous, while the remainder consists of hills and plains.
		It was formed by the division of the river at its mouth into three main branches, forming a triangle with sides about 70 km long.
		Three of the four countries have developed Action Plans for implementation activities, while all have identified sites for the Green Corridor.
	www.grid.unep.ch /product/publication/freshwater_europe/danube.php (716 words)

	DEWA Kids Page: Geology- DEWA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The jelly that pops up is the like the mountains rising out of the land when two pieces of land got squashed together.
		The 2,000 mile Appalachian Mountains that run from New England to the South of the United States were formed like this, and the Kittatinny Ridge which you see at the Delaware Water Gap is just one ridge -- just one long bump of jelly -- in mountains that formed like this.
		After the mountains were formed, streams and rain flowing off these mountains washed sand and pebbles in flat layers at the sides and bottom of the mountains.
	www.nps.gov /dewa/Kids/MJH/kidGEOLO.html (1146 words)

	Tourist Point(Dewa Sanzan)
		The three sacred mountains are Mount Haguro, Mount Gassan and Mount Yudono.
		The mountain is in the centre of Yamagata prefecture and dominates the scenery from many regions, with its long white slopes and imposing size.
		This is usually the last of the three mountains visited by pilgrims as Haguro is said to represent birth, Gassan death and Yudono rebirth.
	www.yamagatakanko.com /english/kokusai/tour04.html (667 words)

	Poetry in motion - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
		The mountain's oldest cedar, left, is marked by a rope and folded paper to indicate it is a kami, or nature god.
		The mountainous area around Tsuruoka is one of the traditional centers of Shugendo, a Buddhist-Shinto sect whose mountain priests are known for their asceticism and rituals of self-mortification such as standing under icy waterfalls to develop spiritual powers and free the spirit from the body.
		The mountain is said to be shy: On the first day we were there, only a small portion of her snowy summit peeped through the clouds.
	the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2005/Jun/27/il/il07p.html (3476 words)

	YAMAGATA - BOULDER SISTER CITY PROJECT
		The path then splits in three: ahead is the incense-perfumed Okuno-in; to the right the Shaka-do, dedicated to Gautama Buddha, and to the left an observation platform where the views are magnificent.
		The mountain road leading to Hachigome, the eighth station and the beginning of the mountain trail, open on July 1-October 10, passes through a wonderland of deciduous forest bordered by tall evergreens.
		The ivory apparition of Mount Chokaii-san (2230 meters), nicknamed "Dewa Fuji" because of its striking resemblance to that magnificent mountain, rises majestically as a perfect snowcapped cone on the border of Yamagata and Akita prefectures.
	bcn.boulder.co.us /community/yamagata/yamagatainfo.htm (5353 words)

	dewa
		This is three miso-soup bowls of very potent sake, one from each of the three mountains.
		You go up on the little stage, and say something to the priest, and then he bows to you, and pours you three bowls of hot sake, which you have to drink in quick succession.
		All of the houses in the town at the foot of the mountain have enormous woven-straw ropes over the doorways, and throughout the day rope plays an important part in the festivities.
	www.quirkyjapan.or.tv /dewa.html (677 words)

	Africa Environment Outlook
		The Imatong Mountains and surrounding lowlands on the border between Sudan and Uganda.
		This is a transitional area between Afrotropical and palaearctic biogeographic realms and has an estimated three to four times as many plant species as desert areas further north.
		The High Atlas Mountains which extend along the northern part of Morocco and into Tunisia, home to more than one-third of all endemic species in Northern Africa.
	www.unep.org /dewa/Africa/publications/aeo-1/069.htm (352 words)

	Shugendo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In Japanese the name given the priests of the Shugendo religion breaks down into yama, meaning mountain, and bushi (often translated as warrior), meaning to lie down.
		1400 years ago a prince named Hachiko came to the Three Mountains of Dewa (Haguro, Gassan, and Yudono), as the firstborn son of Emperor Sushun, Prince Hachiko's arrival would have drawn a great deal of attention.
		His battleground was the mountains of Yamagata, and as the founder of "Haguro Shugendo" Hachiko came to be revered as Gokaiso, the "Opener of the Mountains".
	www.kar.telinco.co.uk /shugendo.html (229 words)

	Japan Regional Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Gassan, Mt. Haguro-san and Mt. Yudono-san are collectively called the Dewa San-zan, or Three Sacred Mountains of Dewa, and are located within the Bandai-Asahi National Park in central Yamagata.
		The Sanjingo-saiden Shrine that enshrines the three mountains together near the top of Mt. Haguro-san has a 28-meter thick thatched roof, and the interior is completely covered with Japan lacquer, a sight that is well worth seeing.
		Graceful three- to four-story wooden inns stand in a row on both sides of the limpid stream of the Ginzan-gawa River that gives off steam from the hot spring.
	www.asia-planet.net /japan/yamagata.htm (2113 words)

	DEWA RUCI. (From the Javanese classic, The Book of Cabolek)
		Bima Suci (The Holy Wêrkudara, by which is intended the Dewa Ruci), in that after his enlightenment Wêrkudara changes his name to Bima.
		This is a truncated version, leaving out Wêrkudara's trials under a wicked guru who intends him harm and confining itself to the encounter between the rude knight Wrêkudara and his inner self, or spirit, the Dewa Ruci.
		The Dewa Ruci is seen as the embodiment of the spirit, which guides the body and soul of the seeker, symbolized by Wêrkudara, to an understanding of the Perfection of Life and Mystic Union with the Divine.
	www.xs4all.nl /~wichm/dewaruci.html (1874 words)

	onsen
		Although Dewa Sanzen is by far the most beautiful and atmospheric Shukubo that I have ever stayed in, they have all been wonderful.
		The name means 'three mountains of Dewa', and is the home of an obscure religious sect known as Shugendo.
		The three mountains, Haguro-san, Gas-san, and Yudono-san are all beautiful, but Haguro-san is the most accessible and is where the Shukubo are located.
	www.quirkyjapan.or.tv /bathtub.html (1966 words)

	Robert Schroeder : Freelance Journalist
		Three hundred and fifteen years ago, Japan's greatest haiku poet, Matsuo Basho, undertook a five month journey that took him north from his home in present-day Tokyo toward Sendai, then west to the three sacred mountains of Dewa.
		I, too, was moved by the atmosphere of the mountain; its towering trees providing a lovely green canopy over the brown dirt and grey, craggy rocks that punctuated the steep climb.
		I eavesdropped on conversations and watched a young woman paint a mountain scene and smiled at the teenagers taking photos of each other with their cell phones.
	www.robertschroeder.net /rp102004.html (4511 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Physical Features The park is essentially a mountainous area dominated by the peaks of Mt. Gassan (1,980m), Mt. Iide (2,105m) and Mt. Azuma (2,024m).
		Cultural Heritage In the Asahi mountain range are the three holy mountains of Dewa Sanzan (Mounts Gassan, Yudono and Haguro).
		Conservation Management Mount Bandai is one of Japan's three most important bird habitats (Sutherland and Britton, 1980; Robinson, 1987), whilst Lake Inawashiro is listed as one of the 52 "very important" Japanese wetlands in the Draft Asia Wetlands Inventory (Scott, in prep.).
	sea.unep-wcmc.org /sites/pa/1349v.htm (512 words)

	United Nations Environment Programme
		Three sites have been selected from across the region to be the focal sites for this study:
		Encompasses three main habitat types: sandy desert, high altitude habitats, and Marine habitat of the red Sea.
		The ecosystems to be addressed in this study are diverse, including desert ecosystem, mountain ecosystem, coastal ecosystem, agro-ecosystems, freshwater ecosystem and rangeland ecosystems.
	www.unep.org.bh /Programmes/dewa/Assessments/arabmillass.asp (473 words)

	Station 24 - Dewagoe - Miner translation
		We struggled up a steep mountain trail and, finding that the day had grown dark, stumbled into the house of a provincial border guard and asked to be let lodging for the night.
		Our host told us that high mountains separated this area from Dewa and that since the roads were not at all clearly defined we would do best to make the crossing with a guide.
		As our host had warned us, we had to struggle over high, heavily forested mountains, where not a single birdsong was to be heard.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~kohl/basho/24-dewagoe/trans-miner.html (367 words)

	JapanDiscovery: Natural Attractions \| attractions in japan, tourist attractions in hiroshima japan, japan attractions
		Three mountain ranges run parallel through northern Honshu.
		West of the mountains, the Echigo Plain extends to the Sea of Japan.
		The towering peaks of the Japanese Alps, the country s highest mountains, rise in central Honshu.
	www.japandiscovery.com /travel/natural_attractions/honshu.html (289 words)

	Station 30 - Gassan - Miner translation
		We walked in snow and ice in a cold mountain atmosphere among the clouds and mists, as if in the high heavens beside the paths of the sun and the moon.
		He was a person who admired such figures as Kan Chiang and his wife Mo-yeh of the Wu dynasty, they who made the famous swords to which they gave their own names, and he well understood how little common was the dedication necessary to make outstanding things.
		The customary discipline of pilgrims does not allow me to give a detailed description of the area around Mount Yudono, and more than that, we are not even to write of it.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~kohl/basho/30-gassan/trans-miner.html (418 words)

	Articles - Spring in Japan?...not so fast please.
		From the top of the mountain (1984m), you can go off the back steep bowl or start your way down the front bowl back to the lift.
		You will also need to make arrangements to leave a vehicle in the back of Hakkoda where you are going to come out or see if the hotel or onsen you are staying at would be willing to pick you up.
		Mountain weather is so unpredictable, especially when climbing.
	www.hakkodapowder.com /article01.shtml (1001 words)

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