Another reference to the holy mountain is found in Psalm 87:1
Its foundation is in the holy mountains.
To be compared with the last two selections is the couplet from a hymn to Bel:
Great mountain of Enlil Imkharkag whose peak reaches to heaven,
Whose foundation is laid in the glittering deep.
This couplet describes a temple of Bel which resembles a mountain. The name Great Mountain was also applied to Bel himself. Possibly the line of development was thus. The god dwells in the holy mountain. For that reason, the temple is built to resemble a mountain, and the name mountain passes over from the temple to the deity. At any rate, it is interesting to note that Yahwe also dwells in the holy mountain and was likewise called rock:
Rock of our salvation.
—Psalm 95:1.
He only is my rock and my salvation,
My tower, I shall not be greatly moved.