Mountain of the gods

Let us examine quickly the difference in city vs. agrarian cultures. The two clearly have different world poles, one focused on the tower, the other on the mountain. Both have their separate myths and both encourage cultural implications from them. Myths that surround the god of the mountains hold the world pole as the mountain. The mountains thus hold the gods, and humans cannot access this place. However, not everyone agrees on the shape of the world pole. For example, some believe humans cannot access the mountain, while others believe the mountain is the place where heaven and earth connect (and the movement is two-way.)

This is visible in ancient Canaanite religions. Their gods lived on the mountains and were separate from human beings. (See myths of El and Baal.) 

In addition to world pole, the mountain may also become ecological fact. The mountain is also a place of life, for the land has been farmed, excavated, and taken over, but the mountain withstood this human control, mostly.

Man used to peer from the mountain, but now he doesn't need them anymore, at least not to peer onto things. We have created tall buildings that we can peer down onto our developed lives from. Plus, it's much more accessible than a tall mountain.

This has changed our world pole to the city.

This proves several things. With cities humans will move from the mountain and forget about the power flowing from the gods on the mountaintop. This has rid us of mystery, and placed god in the temples men have created.

Further, as our technology takes over wilderness it eventually leaves nothing but desert. We are depleting not only the spiritual but the physical and must heed warning to keep the mountains sacred.