Mt. Reiner

A simple or ordinary landscape such as a mountain like Mt. Reiner has a holy mask. In Lane's axiom, a sacred place is an ordinary place made extraordinary by some act or ritual. Mt. Reiner can be a sacred place because although it is a ordinary mountain, it has massive glaciers making it extraordinary. This mountain is also called "the mountain that was God" and thus the idea that God always remains hidden makes a lot of sense. The mountain itself holds the idea of mysticism because if everything becomes God, then nothing is God. Thus, Mt. Reiner was considered the mountain that "was" God rather than it "is" God. Nothing is set in stone, nor is anything truly Christ because everything is hidden behind a "holy mask". This is the concept of Seeing and not seeing. Mt. Reiner may look just a mountain, but can have a whole other spiritual meaning behind its mask of ice.