![]() The panentheistic and anthropomorphic emphasis of this emanationist theology interpreted the Torah, Jewish observance, and the purpose of Creation as the symbolic esoteric drama of unification in the Sefirot, restoring harmony to Creation. It comprises the ten Sefirot powers in the divine realm. Jewish mysticism depicts the tree of life in the form of ten interconnected nodes, as the central symbol of the Kabbalah. Judaic Kabbalah tree of life 10 Sefirot, through which the Ein Sof unknowable divine manifests Creation. In recent years, about 1% of the monument’s 400,000 annual visitors climbed Devils Tower, mostly using traditional climbing techniques. The monument’s boundary encloses an area of 1,347 acres (545 ha). ![]() The summit is 5,112 feet (1,559 m) above sea level.ĭevils Tower was the first United States National Monument, established on September 24, 1906, by President Theodore Roosevelt. It rises 1,267 feet (386 m) above the Belle Fourche River, standing 867 feet (265 m) from summit to base. What’s your first impression? Devils Tower, 1900ĭevils Tower (also known as Bear Lodge Butte) is a butte, possibly laccolithic, composed of igneous rock in the Bear Lodge Ranger District of the Black Hills, near Hulett and Sundance in Crook County, northeastern Wyoming, above the Belle Fourche River. The Tree of Life is on my mind lately, so I wanted to post some more information about massive trees but it was the notion that the Devils Tower National Monument may have been a tree. In Japanese, "unite" is "subaru.By Aaron on Jin Places Tree of life on a rhyton from Marlik, Iran, currently at the National Museum of Iran. Fun aside: The Japanese only saw six stars, and called it Mutsuaboshi-though its nickname, "Unite," became the name, and symbol, of a famous car company. Astronomers-who gave it the dull designation of "M45"-say there are actually at least 1,000 stars in this open cluster. ![]() (The Native Americans, who saw Nine Maidens in the stars, must have simply had better eyesight than the ancient Europeans, who saw Seven Sisters. He raised the rock straight up out of the ground as a column, allowing the maidens to ascend into the sky and become what we call the Pleiades constellation. Long before Steven Speilberg made Devils Tower the alien landing pad in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Lakota legend held that the fluted sides of Devils Tower were caused by a mighty bear raking the rock with his claws in an attempt to reach nine maidens who clambered onto a rock, praying to the Great Spirit to save them. It is site that had lent itself to myths and legends for centuries. It is either the plug from the core of a long-vanished volcano (a theory supported by the face that it sprouts from teh middle of a large, flat mesa that might once have been the base of the volcano), or an igneous intrusion into the sedimentary layers called a laccolith.Įither way, it took millennia for the sedimantary layers all around it to erode away, leaving this much harder igneous rock still standing to be gawked at by more than 400,000 visitors each year (and climbed by about 4,000). What it is doing in the middle of the sedimentary plains has been debated by geologists for nearly 150 years. (A typo in the Act of Congress establishing it as America's first National Monument back in 1906 accidentally left out the apostraphe, so it is not, in fact, spelled "Devil's Tower").ĭevils Tower is a mass of 40-million-year-old phonolite porphyry, fractured into hexagonal columns that give it its famous vertical groovy texture. ![]() There's no mistaking it: rising 1,267 feet out of the plains leading to the Black Hills like the stump of some titanic petrified tree. A volcanic plug of a platform-mountain rising from the plains of Wyoming
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