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To: LucyT
... One of the favorite stories about Track Rock Gap was recorded by ethnographer James Mooney who gathered Cherokee stories. The Cherokee called this site Datsu'nalasgun'ylu (where there are tracks) and Degayelun'ha (the printed or branded place). Cherokee stories include an explanation that hunters paused in the gap and amused themselves by carving the glyphs: the marks were made in a great hunt when the animals were driven through the gap, and that the tracks were made when the animals were leaving the great canoe after a flood almost destroyed the world and while the earth and rocks were soft. In 1867, conservationist John Muir traveled nearby and met a mountaineer who said, "It is called Track Gap ... from the great number of tracks in the rocks — bird tracks, bar tracks, hoss tracks, men tracks, all in the solid rock as if it had been mud. "

TRACK ROCK LINK


20 posted on 12/22/2011 9:13:11 PM PST by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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To: Fred Nerks

That rock looks like the Creation Turtle.

``Beneath the Tree was a great hole. The woman peered from the edge into the hole and suddenly fell off the edge. As she was falling she grasped at the edge and clutched in her hand some of the earth from the Sky World. As she fell, the birds of the world below were disturbed and alerted to her distress. The birds responded and gathered a great many of their kind to break her fall and cradle her to the back of a great sea turtle. The creatures of the water believed that she needed land to live on, so they set about to collect some for her. They dove to the great depths of the world's oceans to gather earth to make her a place to live. Many of the animals tried to gather the earth from the ocean floor, only the muskrat was successful. With only a small bit of earth brought onto turtle's back from his small paws, Turtle Island began to grow.

The Sky Woman soon gave birth to a daughter on Turtle Island. The daughter grew fast. There were no man-beings on Turtle Island, but a being known as the West Wind married the daughter of Sky Woman.``

http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Legends/TheCreationStory-Iroquois.html

34 posted on 12/23/2011 12:04:03 AM PST by bunkerhill7 (turtle city?)
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To: Fred Nerks; bunkerhill7; Hacksaw

Thanks!


42 posted on 12/23/2011 4:10:12 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Merry Christmas, Happy New Year! May 2013 be even Happier!)
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To: Fred Nerks

In between yugas there is always great geological devastation; about 200 years long. Flooding would defninitely be in the mix. And rising waters, evidenced by large stone structures underneath the sea now being found. I must check the link you sent me! I’m tried of reading about horrible world affairs.


77 posted on 12/23/2011 10:37:34 AM PST by little jeremiah (We will have to go through hell to get out of hell.)
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