Mountains as Spiritual centres Mountains are also considered the spiritual centres by the communities who live in close proximity to them. Pilgrimage to the mountain tops have been made from time immemorial with the hope of obtaining a spiritual exhilaration and heightened awareness of the powers that allowed the origin of such high protruding natural phenomena. Communities living around mount Kenya are known to have worshipped God facing the mountain. Up to this year there are holy pilgrimages up the mountain undertaken by the adherents of traditional religious beliefs and practices. They are rewarded for their efforts by a psychological awareness of a vivid sacred reality which can only be experienced and not narrated.
Some elders say it is simply heightens sacred energies.
Mountains are thus a cosmic axis that stand out as centres of the universe linking the sacred and the profane worlds. They are also the unchanging monuments of memory for the past, present and future generations. Mount Kenya is particularly known as the abode of God. With her snow-capped peaks and rich diversity of vegetation. This is in form of great demand for land, water, wood products and the entire mountainous biodiversity.