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Within the central known universe a specific locale-often a mountain or other elevated place, a spot where earth and sky come closest-gains status as center of the center, the axis mundi.
The Pitjantjatjara people in central Australia consider Uluru to be central to both their world and culture.
In ancient Mesopotamia the cultures of ancient Sumer and Babylon erected artificial mountains, or ziggurats, on the flat river plain.
The pre-Columbian residents of Teotihuacán in Mexico erected huge pyramids featuring staircases leading to heaven.
The Middle Kingdom, China, had a central mountain, Kun-Lun, known in Taoist literature as " the mountain at the middle of the world.
Wise religious teachers are typically depicted in literature and art as bringing their revelations at world centers: mountains, trees, temples.
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