Last Pictures of Devils Tower

We are off to South Dakota.  Emma and I took a walk and our view of the tower was it coming out of the mist.  It was awesome.  I can see why Natives believe it is a special healing place.  It is magical.

 

The Lakota people call this place Mato Tipila or Bear Lodge.  My favorite legend is:  A little boy with 7 older sisters wanted to scare them.  He prayed to the bear god to turn him into a bear which happened.  He chased his sisters who ran and gathered onto a big rock.  They prayed to the rock to save them.  The rock grew and grew with the bear clawing it.  It grew so high that it flung the 7 sisters into the sky and they are still there today as the 7 sisters constellation.  The younger brother was so tired after clawing the rock he lay down east of the tower and slept never becoming a boy again and he is there today as Bear Buttes.  Isn't that better than the geology story of liquid magma pushing up towards the earth surface?