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Title Slide for youth series on the devil. Addressing challenges teens face to day, how the devil tries to destroy their lives and how they can overcome through the power of Jesus.
design and illustration by Ian Moss
The devils arrows or bolts are 3 standing stones which sit next to the A1 at Boroughbridge by the river Ure. It is thought that there were originally 5 stones. (Alternative Names: Three Grey Hounds, Three Sisters)
The stones are composed of millstone grit and it is suggested that they date from around 2,700 BC and was carried here from Knaresborough. The lightest one weighs over 25 tons and stands 5.5m high. The 2 tallest stones measure almost 7m high.
The name Devil's Arrows is thought to date from the end of the 17th century when people believed that walking 12 times around the stones anti-clockwise would raise the Devil!
There are several legends about the stones associated with the Devil. The most popular legend is that these stones are the Devil’s crossbow bolts. He was aiming for the Christian settlement of Aldborough from Howe Hill but fell short by a mile.
Another is of how the grooves were made in the stone, which were actually made by centuries of erosion. The story is that the Devil tried to hang his grandmother but she struggled so hard that the ropes cut into the stone. When she broke free he tied her to the next stone. This continued until he ran out of stones to hang her from.
Yet another legend tells of how a local Chief of the Brigantes tribe held a meeting to discuss the merits of the new Christian religion over the existing, but dying out, Druid system.
The Devil arrived in disguise to try to sway the people back to the old Pagan religion, but someone spotted his cloven hooves which were melting the ground beneath him. After being found out, the Devil flew off in a rage, leaving pillars of molten rock behind.
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Originally taken and posted for the GWUK group.
Guessed by LookaroundAnne
Now replaced with un-edited version
Livingstone Island, Zambia
Devil's Pool is adjacent to the famous Livingstone Island situated on the edge of the Victoria Falls.
During the drier months of the year, May to October, it is possible to walk along the lip of the falls. This can only be done from the Zambian side. After thousands of years of erosion, many rock pools have formed and one of them has formed right on the very edge of the sheer drop.
Over 500 million litres of water a minute cascade over the almost 2km wide falls, causing a deafening and spectacular explosion of spray which can be seen 30 miles away. This is why it is known locally as Mosi-oa-Tunya, or The Smoke that Thunders.
You can find guides who will take you on the Zambian side, at the entrance to the Falls.
This sculpture shows the figures of Archangel Michael and the devil just when Michael defeated the devil. You might know this scene from the entrance of St. Michaelis Church in Hamburg. This is the ice-version.
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Hier sieht man Erzengel Michael und den Teufel beim Kämpfen. Na ja, der Teufel wurde gerade besiegt. Kennt man vom Eingang des Michels, aber das hier ist die eisige Version davon.
Alles anklickbar.
This is sunrise behind the Devils Kitchen from Llyn Idwal. On a morning like this there are not many places more bleak and desolate.
There's a story behind my short trip to Devil's Dyke. I'll tell you maybe next time.... :-)
Brighton and London, England
14 Nov - 05 Dec 2013
-Rollei 35
-Kodak TX
(a scan of an old photo)
This is the "Devil's Chair" stone of the Avebury (stone) henge. Legend says that if you run around the stone counterclockwise 100 times you will summon the devil. Also, young girls would (and apparently still do) sit in the seat on Beltane and make wishes. The stone is said to have mystical powers that have to do with fertility. It is about 13 feet tall by 14 feet long, weighs about 40 tons and has a natural seat in it. It sits in the southeast corner of the henge.
Facts you really don't want to know about it
The stone circles of Europe are 'prehistoric' which means before written history of Europe, or before the time of Romans. There are 4 main periods - 1. Stone Age, 2. New Stone Age or Neolithic Age, 3. Bronze Age, 4. Iron Age
Avebury is the oldest megalith in Britain and is the supposed to be the longest henge in the world. Also said to be the largest stone circle in Europe.
Avebury is Neolithic which means it is from the "new" stone age, a time right after the ape-like humans and the flintstones. The difference between 'cavemen' and the people who started building Avebury was corn and farming. The first builders of Avebury farmed instead of being nomadic and they used tools made of bone and antler. The stones of Avebury are not altered because the didn't have tools to alter them with. Can you imagine digging a ditch with an antler? Jeeez!
Stonehenge is from the bronze age. Stone was the main building material in the Bronze age but they had metal tools to dress the stones with. I think this is a profound difference. They probably had shovels.
I'll leave you alone now (yea, I keep a geekified journal when I travel)
Photo Hunt 5 slide show
Victoria Falls is one of the largest waterfalls in the world. At full flood, the water appears almost like a single sheet of water cascading over the gorges, but we were there at the end of dry season and the waterfall comes down in various streams across the width of the gorge. This stream, if I'm not mistaken, is the Devil's Cataract, which is westernmost stream in Zimbabwe and the first part of the falls we saw in the park.
Cute little baby Tasmanian Devils
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A closer shot in of the other photo.
Local folklore explains the valley as the work of the devil. The legend holds that the devil was digging a trench to allow the sea to flood the many churches in the Weald of Sussex. The digging disturbed an old woman who lit a candle, or angered a rooster causing it to crow, making the devil believe that the morning was fast approaching. The devil then fled, leaving his trench unfinished. The last shovel of earth he threw over his shoulder fell into the sea, forming the Isle of Wight.
More than 180 rubber ducks you can see on the way from the hotel "Vier Jahreszeiten" to the thermal bath at Loipersdorf in Styria, Austria.
Recorded with a Nikon D80, Nikon AF-S DX VR 18-200/3.5-5.6
Soooo I'm in Colorado. Arrived yesterday and drove up to Estes Park by myself to hike and relax and distract my mind before my interviews tomorrow. After two gorgeous hikes in almost white-out conditions, I headed back to Denver on US 34, Big Thompson Canyon, the bestest way to get to and from Estes Park.
Just before getting to Loveland, there's a striking rock feature that sticks up in the middle of grasslands. It's called Devil's Backbone and I've always wanted to stop. So today I did. And it's really cool! I didn't explore much because it was getting late, but the ridges are pretty sweet. Also the howling coyotes really started to creep me out.
On to tomorrow.... (starting to get nervous!)
Lots more pictures too, eventually :)
From Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devils_Tower
Devils Tower (also known as Bear Lodge Butte) is a butte, possibly laccolithic, composed of igneous rock in the Bear Lodge Ranger District of the Black Hills, near Hulett and Sundance in Crook County, northeastern Wyoming, above the Belle Fourche River. It rises 1,267 feet (386 m) above the Belle Fourche River, standing 867 feet (265 m) from summit to base. The summit is 5,112 feet (1,559 m) above sea level.
Devils Tower was the first United States national monument, established on September 24, 1906, by President Theodore Roosevelt. The monument's boundary encloses an area of 1,347 acres (545 ha).
In recent years, about 1% of the monument's 400,000 annual visitors climbed Devils Tower, mostly using traditional climbing techniques.
As rain and snow continue to erode the sedimentary rocks surrounding the Tower's base, more of Devils Tower will be exposed. Nonetheless, the exposed portions of the Tower still experience certain amounts of erosion. Cracks along the columns are subject to water and ice erosion. Portions, or even entire columns, of rock at Devils Tower are continually breaking off and falling. Piles of broken columns, boulders, small rocks, and stones, called scree, lie at the base of the tower, indicating that it was once wider than it is today.
Fur trappers may have visited Devils Tower, but they left no written evidence of having done so. The first documented Caucasian visitors were several members of Captain William F. Raynolds's 1859 expedition to Yellowstone. Sixteen years later, Colonel Richard I. Dodge escorted an Office of Indian Affairs scientific survey party to the massive rock formation and coined the name Devils Tower. Recognizing its unique characteristics, the United States Congress designated the area a U.S. forest reserve in 1892 and in 1906 Devils Tower became the nation's first National monument.
The 1977 movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind used the formation as a plot element and as the location of its climactic scenes.Its release was the cause of a large increase in visitors and climbers to the monument.
Similarly, the 2011 movie Paul used the formation at the film's climax as an homage to Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
The Native American story of the formation of the stars of the Pleiades at Devils Tower is featured in the 2014 science documentary series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey.
It is featured in a 2019 episode of The UnXplained titled "Unnatural Nature", documenting and speculating about the formation.
Devil's Tower featured in 2019 film Godzilla: King of The Monsters as Abaddon resting.
Devil's Tower, by the name Mato Tipila, is featured as one of 34 discoverable natural wonders in the 2016 Firaxis video game Civilization VI.
Photo by Eric Friedebach