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Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming.

Devils Tower, Wyoming

May 21, 1995

around the domain of Prairie dog

 

@ Devils Tower, Wyoming

Devils Tower National Monument

October 2014

See the image makes me goosebumps.

 

@ Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming

Sunset at Devils Tower, June 2012

Full moon rising at Devils Tower, Wyoming

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.

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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.

Devils Tower National Monument

October 2014

Devil's Tower National Monument, Wyoming, photographed from Route 24 to the north.

you can see this rock spewing up from the ground from miles away.

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.

A gathering point for all travelers.

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