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May 8, 2023: Manitou Cliff Dwellings, Manitou Springs, Colorado.
Built between 1904-1907, The Manitou Cliff Dwellings is a privately owned tourist attraction with a recreated Anasazi cliff dwelling, museum, and gift shop. Visitors can walk and climb through the recreated cliff dwellings. The cliff dwellings are based on actual examples found in Mesa Verde National Park and similar preserved sites.
The Anasazi, also known as the Ancestral Puebloans, lived in the Four Corners area of the American Southwest from about 1200 BC to AD 1300.
Sunset at the forgotten resort of Manitou Lake. The lake is a salt water lake that contains a lot of the same minerals as the Dead Sea.
The Manitou Incline was built in the 1920s and took visitors to the top of Mt. Manitou near Colorado Springs. It was removed in 1990.
Manitou is a term used to designate spirits among the Algonquians.
"In all the languages in the Algonquian family, the word manitto or manitou signifies the spirit. Some nations use this word principally to designate the evil spirit or the devil. Thus, in the small vocabulary of P. Lejeune, one finds manitou, spirit, devil; manitousiouats , sorcerers; manitouhhati, leg of the devil. But in general, the Indians in this family distinguish between the great and good and the evil spirit by calling both manitou and then adding a modifier. Kitchi and ketsi (the great) designate the good spirit and matchi or matsi (bad) the evil spirit. The Shawnee say wissé or wishé manitou, the good spirit."
from Du Ponceau's "Comparative Vocabulary and Discussion of Languages of the Algonquian Family"; in Dissertation on the Grammatical System of the Languages of Some Indians of North America, (Paris, 1938) by Peter Stephen Du Ponceau (1760-1844)
Manitous do not exist in a hierarchy like European gods & goddesses, but are more as one part of the body interacting with another, and the spirit of everything.
The Manitou takes good or evil from the individual soul, and then returns it.
I'm welding in the background and my assistant, Uriah Pryor is cutting in the foreground.
Ft Payne, Al.