This caused the globe to tilt to the southeast, according to the legend, and devastating floods resulted.

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According to a legend, a red-cheeked dragon named Kung Kung once rushed at northern Heng Shan and knocked the celestial canopy askew.

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The ancient Chinese identified five mountains—Heng Shan in the north, Sung Shan in the center, Hua Shan in the west, T'ai Shan in the east, and Heng Shan in the south—as the props of the sky.

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To the early Greeks, the Pillars of Hercules, looming up at either side of the Strait of Gibraltar, held up that end of the universe.

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Once men thought the peaks kept the sky from falling in.

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Mountains have always filled man with a sense of the supernatural.