Jorge is quite right  in advising caution when dealing with the influence of landscape on religion (his Post #214)

  IMHO, the subject is plagued by what may be described as "loose talk" and it takes a lot of time and effort to sort out serious materials. For those interested in pursuing the question of landscape and religion more in depth I'd like to call attention to one of the Sessions of the Theoretical Archeology Group (hosted by Univ. of Southampton) under the title: "Finding Faith in the Landscape". In connection with subjects alluded to in this Message Board, worthy of note, amongst others,  are the articles:  

 Perspectives of Landscape: Views from Archaeology and Neo-Paganism (W. Rathouse)

 Landscape/Religion/Identity (S.Das)

 Rituals of a Soft Landscape (M. Kok)

    The URL for abstracts of the articles is:

http://www.tagconference.org/content/finding-faith-landscape