Devil's Tower
Nov. 1st, 2012 08:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Interesting legends about Devil's Tower, WY. Many involve a bear attempting to capture children. One includes a great eagle rescuing the children from the pinnacle (sound familiar, Tolkien fans?)[On a totally unrelated note: I was amused recently to learn that the phrase In vino veritas is attributed to Pliny the Elder (evidently lifted off a Greek phrase attributed to Alcaeus). I love that guy.]
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Date: 2012-11-02 01:55 pm (UTC)I have heard the legend, but I prefer Close Encounters of the Third Kind instead :-)
- Erulisse (one L)
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Date: 2012-11-03 07:52 pm (UTC)And I love all the myths.
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Date: 2012-11-03 10:50 pm (UTC)Yeah this also cropped up in one of my anthro texts. I thought it was pretty cool too.
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Date: 2012-11-04 12:35 am (UTC)We spent a huge amount of time on them, though we didn't talk much about myth...much more about warfare! And counting coup. And renaming the Cart of Doom to Grond. And portals to hell that appeared in the classroom, but that was in my other Anthropology class.
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Date: 2012-11-04 07:38 pm (UTC)Grond, Grond, Grond!
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Date: 2012-11-04 08:58 pm (UTC)Power trip on, Mr. Professor. XP
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Date: 2012-11-05 11:13 pm (UTC)