The Mountain

Thesaurus V

Top of the mountain

Attainment of knowledge through experience (climbing the mountain).

Closer to heaven.

Advantage point, vision.¹

The mountain survives the flood.

Inside the mountain

Treasure, dwarves²

Place of secrecy, secret facilities.

Batcave

Cavern

Swallowed by a mountain

Belly of the mountain

The pyramid ³

1. Building on top of the mountain is a common practice, for it gives a strategic advantage, you can see your enemy approaching from afar.

2. Treasure or gold inside the mountain is common in many stories.

The Hobbit, Tolkien

Sesame mountain, Grimm brothers

3. Climbing up the mountain is hard and concentrates the multiplicity at bottom to the peak, to a point. This is the same as focusing on heaven from earth

This is why the tip of the pyramid is covered in gold.