Many primitive peoples have believed that the souls of the righteous mounted to heaven from the branches of trees or high mountains, and for this reason revered mountains are sometimes pictured in early art as bearing a crest or crown of stars.
Star myths have in this way become intimately associated with legends of mountains, and deities presiding over the events of life are by imaginative mortals given special stars for their abode.
The clouds, too, form part of the conventionalized ornament that bears directly upon these considerations. In the constellation of Ursa Major, the " Great ruler" was supposed by the Mongolians to reside.
