In den USA wird mit dem Wort "mountain" mehr als nur die bloße Bedeutung "Berg" verbunden.
In einem Song heißt es: Lord, this time you gave me a mountain......
was in diesem Fall riesige Herausforderung bedeutet.
Born in the heat of the desert
My mother died giving me life
Deprived of the love of a father
Blamed for the loss of his wife
You know Lord I've been in a prison
For something that I never done
It's been one hill after another
I've climbed them all one by one
But this time, Lord you gave me a mountain
A mountain you know I may never climb
It isn't just a hill any longer
You gave me a mountain this time
My woman got tired of heartaches
Tired of the grief and the strife
So tired of working for nothing
Just tired of being my wife
She took my one ray of sunshine
She took my pride and my joy
She took my reason for living
She took my small baby boy
But this time, Lord you gave me a mountain
A mountain you know I may never climb
It isn't just a hill any longer
You gave me a mountain this time
http://www.absolutelyrics.com/lyrics/vi ... _mountain/John Winthrop 1588 - 1640 sagte in seiner berühmten Predigt an Bord der Arbella 1630:
Zitat:
... for we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill, the eyes of all people are upon us;
The concept of manifest destiny is as old as the first New Ewngland settlements. Without using the words, John Winthrop articulated the concept in his famous sermon, the Arbella Covenant (1630), when he said: " ... for we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill, the eyes of all people are upon us; ..." Winthrop exhorts his listeners to carry on God's mission and to set a shining example for the rest of the world. From this beginning, the concept has had religious, social, economic, and political consequences. The words manifest destiny were first used by editor John L. O'Sullivan in 1845.
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/p ... d/axt.htmlIn diesem Fall ist mit "city upon the hill" Jerusalem gemeint, das die tiefgläubigen Pilgrim Fathers in New England aufbauen wollten.
Weiter werden bei den Pilgrims immer wieder Verbindungen gezogen zu Moses 5.
Nicht vergessen: Moses bestieg den Berg Sinai und erhielt die Gesetzestafeln.
Martin Luther King kann Capitol Hill gemeint haben, meiner Ansicht nach ist aber mehr der Sinai gemeint, "die Stadt auf dem Hügel" oder auch die Herausforderung.