
Death Valley vs. Mount Fuji
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The Beauty of Mount Fuji
As one of Japan's three holy mountains, Mount Fuji has served as religious inspiration for centuries. Buddhist call Fuji's peak Zenjo, that's their term for a perfect, meditative state. Believers in the ancient Japanese religion of Shinto think of Fuji as the home to their goddess of volcanoes. There's even a legend that when Fuji's volcano smolders, it's filled with an elixir of immortality set on fire by a heartbroken Japanese emperor.
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