According to tradition, their ancestors defended themselves from invading Spanish conquistadores with the aid of local mountain deities (Apu) that devastated a Spanish Army near Wiraquchapampa.

He told Bhadda that he had vowed to make offerings to a certain mountain deity if he could avoid the death penalty.

Then they ritually assume the godforms of mountain deities by covering themselves with leaves and crowning themselves with red flowers.

I have rarely been as relieved to get down from anything, and gave copious thanks to wild mountain deities as I finally entered the frontier village of Arneguy.

Witnesses record that Choe Jeu participated in animistic rituals to mountain deities.

Tigers once populated the peninsula and, in traditional culture, were considered holy animals embodying a mountain deity.

I started thinking so when a Clem told me about the mountain deity at our Station Five.

She is known to have been worshipped in hellenised Phrygia (north-western Turkey), probably derived from a local Anatolian mountain deity.

In the Alta Verapaz, the role of saints and crosses was assumed by male mountain deities demanding the destruction of the coffee plantations and a return to the ancient ways.

In fact, in some incarnations, kappa will spend spring and summer in the water, and the rest of the year in the mountains as a Yama-no-Kami (山の神, "mountain deity").