Earth:Psai-Yah-hus

From HandWiki
Representation of the a'yahos spirit.

Psi-ya-hus (also spelled Psai-Yah-hus) is a spirit rock near the Fauntleroy ferry terminal in Seattle, Washington.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]:118 Coast Salish peoples associate the rock with A'yahos, a "malevolent and dangerous" spirit,[6]:72 capable of shapeshifting, who sometimes appears in a two-headed serpent form, who is associated with other earthquake-related areas like landslides near the Seattle Fault.[4][8][9]

LIDAR imagery of the Seattle area revealed a previously unknown landslide in the Fauntleroy area. Another area associated with the a'yahos near Mercer Island could be related to the Lake Washington sunken forests, caused by landslides triggered by a Seattle Fault event around 900 CE.[4]

References

  1. Buerge, D. M. (March 6, 1985), "Lost Seattle, our shameful neglect of a rich archeological past", Seattle Weekly 
  2. Fauntleroy, Southwest Seattle Historical Society, http://www.loghousemuseum.info/history/fauntleroy/, retrieved 2015-07-05 
  3. Template:Historylink
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 R. S. Ludwin; C. P. Thrush; K. James; D. Buerge; C. Jonientz-Trisler; J. Rasmussen; K. Troost; A. de los Angeles (July 2005), "Serpent Spirit-power Stories along the Seattle Fault", Seismological Research Letters 76 (4): 426–431, doi:10.1785/gssrl.76.4.426, http://pnsn.org/outreach/native-american-stories/serpent-spirit-power/native-american-serpent-spirit-power-stories 
  5. True, Kathryn; Dolan, Maria (2003), Nature in the City Seattle, The Mountaineers Books, p. 185, ISBN 9780898868791, https://books.google.com/books?id=ByIa__K8HzUC&pg=PA185 
  6. 6.0 6.1 Piccardi, Luigi; Masse, W. Bruce (2007), "Folklore and earthquakes: Native American oral traditions from Cascadia compared with written traditions from Japan", Myth and Geology, 273, London: Geological Society, pp. 67–94, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.2007.273.01.07, ISBN 9781862392168, https://books.google.com/books?id=F7pZfLUoHJIC 
  7. Yeates, Robert S. (2004), "Ghost Forests, Raised Shorelines, and the Seattle Fault", Living with Earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest (Second ed.), Oregon State University Press, pp. 109–118, ISBN 0-87071-024-9, http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/oer/Earthquake.pdf 
  8. Vince Stricherz (July 11, 2005), "Native lore tells the tale: There's been a whole lotta shakin' goin' on", UW Today (University of Washington), http://www.washington.edu/news/2005/07/11/native-lore-tells-the-tale-theres-been-a-whole-lotta-shakin-goin-on/ 
  9. David Bressan (October 28, 2012), "An Essential Field Guide to North American Earthquake Beasts", History of Geology (Scientific American blogs), http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/history-of-geology/a-field-guide-to-the-north-american-earthquake-beasts/ 

External links

[ ⚑ ] 47°31′22″N 122°23′40″W / 47.52270°N 122.39431°W / 47.52270; -122.39431 (Psai-Yah-hus)