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Title: In & around the Grand Canyon; the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River in Arizona
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: James, George Wharton, 1858- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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nd far away Navaho. Acrossthe river are Vishnu Temple and Newberry Ter-race. Standinor between these orreat structures andourselves are the buttes that make up the interest-ine Aneel Gate, which I so named on account ofthe following legend. In an earlier chapter reference has been made to the mythology of one of the Paiuti tribes, whichaccounts for the creation of the great gorge. Someday the gods—Those Above — will return to theearth, and Angel Gate is to be their place ofdescent from the shadow world above to theworld of the here below. This gate may beseen from several of the trails and outlook pointson the rim, and the following is the story theIndians tell about it. While their ancestors settledin these regions under the direct guidance of Those Above, they ever believed and taughttheir descendants that some day, some time, thesods would return to the earth and lead them intoa far more beautiful, fertile, and better wateredland, where seeds, fruits, flowers, vegetables, roots.
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Q W PQ > go w THE GRAND CANYON 91 trees, and game of every kind would abound, andwhere the Indians would find an earthly home, afit foretaste of their spirit home. But the godstold no one exactly when this visit to the earthwas to be made, so it has been the duty of cer-tain Shamans, or medicine men, on given days ofthe year to watch for their coming. And it isthrough this gateway they will come. So theIndians call it The Entrance or Gateway of thePeople of the Shadows, and the priests sit wherethey can watch Angel Gate from the rising to the setting of the sun, that they may be ready towarn their people when Those Above come to leadthem from their present homes of poverty, toil, andceaseless struggle to their new and blessed homesof plenty, comfort, and rest. Just beyond Yaki Point, where the BattleshipOregon stands, carved in imperishable stone, in theheart of the Canyon, is a long terrace of the redsandstone with a sharp, detached butte at the northend. This is Gilbert Terrace, s

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