 Other sacred mountains had different traditions, such as segregating the sexes by season, allowing women to climb at some times and men to climb at others.It is believed that the reason for this ban was to remove thoughts of temptation from the Yamabushi monks who are supposed to practice the strict self-denial of a hermit in isolated mountain.Eventually the bans came to be called Nyonin Kekkai (女人結界) and toward women only.