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Text: Great Smoky Mountain, National Park
And It Became Land
Look out across the Smoky Mountains landscape. How did this land come to be?
They carefully got all the mud and they laid it out on the rocks. And when it was dry enough. Grandfather threw it out into the water, and it became land. And the buzzard flew with his great wings. Each time when his wings went down, it would make a big valley, and each time the wings would go up, it would make a big mountain.
Adapted from Living Stories of the Cherokee,
"How the World Was Made" Kathi Smith Littlejohn
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth....
And God said. Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear:
and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters he called seas.
Genesis 1:1,9,10. King James Version
The earliest beginnings of the Great Smoky Mountains were a time of drastic fluctuations of temperature and massive upheavals in the earth's crust. The bedrock of the Appalachian chain was probably [millions of] years old when it was metamorphosed and partially melted in the first mountain-building phase.
Great Smoky Mountains: The Story Behmd the Scenery. Rita Cantú
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Text: Mountains: Refuge and Healing
Clingmans Dome is a sacred mountain to the Cherokees, where the Magic Lake was once seen. The Great Spirit told the Cherokees that, "if they love me, if they love all their brothers and sisters, and if they love the animals of the earth, when they grow old and sick, they can come to a magic lake and be made well again."
For Cherokees, these mountains have meant a refuge, Homeland, and a mythical and spiritual foundation for their people. During the Indian Removal Period the 1800s known as the Trail of Tears, the mountains meant safety from pursuing soldiers. Today these slopes provide a refuge and offer inspiration for visitors from hectic modern society.
Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are 'ginning to find that going to the mountains is going home.
Naturalist John Muir, 189K
What do these mountains mean to you?
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Clingmans Dome — At 6642 feet, Clingmans Dome is the highest peak in the Smokies
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