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𝐌𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐧

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It is now devoid of all life and bears an infamous reputation as a popular suicide spot.

Mount Hikami is famed for its exceptional sunset views, which inspired its name. The mountain is around 2,300 feet in elevation, and is heavily forested throughout the base of the mountain, though the upper elevations are sparse and rocky. It has an extensive lava cave aquafer system underneath the mountain. The summit consist of a caldera lake of clean water, with an island atoll at the center of the lake, containing a separate spring.

The mountain is noted for its streams, rivers, hot springs, and waterfalls, which flow from the caldera at the summit, feeding into the aquafer system underground. Several other mountains surround Mt. Hikami. Mt. Hikami has frequent earthquakes and landslides.

Mt. Hikami has long been associated as a place where the human world meets the hidden world, and a place where one can easily enter death. The atoll spring at the summit of the mountain is known as the Shadow Spring, is a place where the land of the dead is physically present in the land of the living. From this direct link, the black water flows into the living world, which is also considered part of the land of the dead.

At sunset, the veil between the two worlds weakens and the Dark Sun, which shines on the land of the dead, and therefore over the Shadow Spring, becomes visible over the mountain,appearing like the normal sun. Dying or weak willed people looking at the Dark Sun sunset will feel irresistibly drawn to travel to the mountain, climb the summit, and enter death through the Shadow Spring. Healthy people find the sunset ominous.

In order to contain and manage all of this death contamination and prevent the mountain from becoming polluted, the mountain systems function as a means of purification and containment. The shadow spring is walled in by the atoll, functioning like a dam, and surrounded by clean, purifying water, to keep it contained. Any black water overflow is diluted into the pure water, and flows down the mountain rivers, into the underground aquafers for holding, preventing death contamination from spreading.

The primary focuses of the mountain religions center around the purification and worship of water, creating 'bridges' between the land of the living and the dead to ease the passage of the dying, and child-centric ceremonies and temples dedicated to lost or deceased children.