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For quite some time I watched the climber in orange attempting to ascend Devil's Tower. He slipped a couple times, but he's safely attached by a rope to a climber seated way above him.
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According to the Native American tribes of the Kiowa and Lakota Sioux, some girls went out to play and were spotted by several giant bears, who began to chase them. In an effort to escape the bears, the girls climbed atop a rock, fell to their knees, and prayed to the Great Spirit to save them. Hearing their prayers, the Great Spirit made the rock rise from the ground towards the heavens so that the bears could not reach the girls. The bears, in an effort to climb the rock, left deep claw marks in the sides, which had become too steep to climb. (Those are the marks which appear today on the sides of Devils Tower.) When the girls reached the sky, they were turned into the star constellation the Pleiades.
The brightly colored pieces of cloth that you find
hanging in some of the trees along the Tower Trail
and elsewhere in the Monument are referred to as
prayer cloths, prayer bundles, prayer ribbons, prayer
ties, and prayer flags. They are physical, symbolic
representations of prayers and are here by American
Indian people as part of their religious ceremonies.
Please do not touch, take, or disturb these prayer
cloths in any way. It is considered culturally
insensitive to photograph these items and we request
that you do not do so.
Devils Tower was the first declared United States National Monument, established on September 24, 1906, by President Theodore Roosevelt.
American Indians use the Tower as a place of
worship. Most of the ceremonies that take place are
small groups or individuals, who have gathered for
prayer, pipe ceremonies, the tying of prayer cloths, or
vision quests.
Good Tuesday Morning from the Bliss DInosaur Ranch.
That the 5112 foot tall Devil’s Tower National Monument standing 1267 feet high above the surrounding ground. That’s a big rock under that somewhat bigger thunderstorm……. :).
I did NOT work sunrise this morning. Too many other things on my plate.. :(.
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