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photo by Donald Kinney
It's sort of a mystery why such a Heavenly place ended up with the name of the Devil... But here in California there is no shortage of Devilish places... Devil's Slide is south of San Francisco on Highway 1, Devil's Postpile is an unusual formation of basalt rock in the Sierra Nevadas, and Devils Punchbowl and Devils Golfcourse are both located in Death Valley... I can think of several more...
I did a little Googling and found this possible explanation:
"Place names evoking the Devil reflect a dominant attitude on the part of Euro-American settlers towards the New World during the migration into the wild West. The history of place names is based in mistranslation, deliberate insult and slur and the frustration of ranchers, as well as a Christian notion of the wilderness as the domain of the Devil."
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3 comments:
Wonderful place, interresting explanation! :) One place in Quebec Province is called Ruisseau-à-rebours, meaning "brook flowing in reverse". But the water of that brook doesn't flow in reverse! :) The name probably comes from the first name of the place, Ruisseau-Harbour.... :)
I love how you have captured the rushing swirling water. You do so well with water shots Don.
Really like that bottom one with the leaves in the water.
Years ago, the first time I visited my brother in Utah, we passed a rock formation there that was also called Devil's Slide. It really did look like a gigantic playground slide. I'd often wondered why things were called Devil' this or that. Like Devil's Tower in Wyoming (Close Encounters of the Third Kind).
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