3 myths
Myths, legends, and mystical writings about Mountains from across Jewish tradition.
3 myths on JewishMythology.com retell how Jewish tradition imagines mountains, drawn from the Hebrew Bible, Midrash, Talmud, Kabbalah, and later Jewish literature. Each story below synthesizes primary sources into a single narrative; follow any myth to read it, and from there into the source passages behind it.
Water rose fifteen cubits over every peak while Noah fed lions and worms, until the first of a new year cracked the silence.
Fifteen cubits above the peaks, then a slow refund. Sixty days, one cubit every four. In Av the drowned world shows its mountains again.
Tabor and Carmel uprooted themselves and quarreled on the move. God chose Sinai instead, then forced Moses off that pure peak when the calf rose below.
