When Mountains Are Gods
Wonder Cabinet
Wonder Cabinet Productions
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
If you look at a mountain, you might see a skiing destination, a climbing challenge, or even a source of timber to be logged or ore to be mined. But there was a time when mountains were sacred. In some places, they still are. What changes when you think of a mountain not as a giant accumulation of natural resources, but as a living being?
Today’s show is part of our project on kinship with the more-than-human world — produced in collaboration with the Center for Humans and Nature, and with support from the Kalliopeia Foundation. You’ll find more information about the project at ttbook.org/kinship and humansandnature.org.
Original Air Date: July 24, 2021
Guests:
John Hausdoerffer — Regina Lopez-Whiteskunk — David Hinton — Lisa Maria Madera
Interviews In This Hour:
What Do You Owe The Mountains Around You? — 'These Are Live, Active Places': A Ute Activist Fights To Save The Bears Ears National Monument — A Poet Finds Life Lessons on Hunger Mountain — 'I Was Born To Volcanoes'
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| 0:00.0 | If you look at a mountain, maybe you see something to climb up or something to ski down. |
| 0:14.0 | Maybe you see something to log or mine. |
| 0:16.8 | But there was a time when mountains were sacred. |
| 0:20.5 | And in some places they still are. |
| 0:24.1 | I'm Anne Strange Champs, and today we're asking, |
| 0:26.9 | what changes when you think of a mountain, |
| 0:29.7 | not as a giant accumulation of natural resources, |
| 0:33.0 | but as a living being? |
| 0:35.9 | Welcome to the next episode of our series on kinship |
| 0:38.7 | with the more than human world. |
| 0:41.1 | Today, when mountains are gods. |
| 0:45.5 | After this. |
| 0:51.2 | Wisconsin Public Radio It's to the best of our knowledge. |
| 1:05.3 | I'm And Strange Champs. |
| 1:07.6 | For centuries, people have looked at mountains with awe and wonder. |
| 1:11.6 | We've climbed them, skied them, gone on pilgrimage and retreat to them. |
| 1:18.6 | But today, from China to Ecuador, from the Alps to the Rockies, |
| 1:23.6 | the people who know mountains best say something is changing. |
| 1:39.2 | So I have two daughters, Adelaia and Seoul, at 13 and 9, |
| 1:42.6 | and we have a game that we call snow hunting. |
| 1:47.0 | John Hausdorfer is a mountain ecologist in Colorado. |
| 1:55.0 | Every month we find the snow, which is easy in the Rockies in the winter. But come July, August, September, it's very hard to find the snow. |
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