Twin Peaks

Not the cult-classic television show, but twin mountains. They show up in many cultures around the globe, sometimes compared to a mother's breasts. Here is what Barbara Walker has to say about them in "The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets." Mashu "Twin Peaks," the holy mountain of Akkadian myth into which the sun god daily sank; corresponding to the bosom of Hathor, Ma-Nu, into which the Egyptian sun sank prior to his rebirth each dawn.(1) This twin-peaked mountain-mother may be related to the Celtic death goddess Macha, slayer of heroes; or even to the twin-peaked mountain Macchu Picchu, "Hitching Post of the Sun," in distant Peru.(2) Notes: (1) Epic of Gilgamesh, 123. (2) Larousse, 443. Wow - I never knew that about Macchu Picchu being a twin mountain. Mashu, Ma-Nu, Maccha, Macchu. Hmmmm...