--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "hugheshugo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This would be funny if it wasn't so scary > > http://www.peer.org/news/news_id.php?row_id=801
Yup. My friends who are rangers there told me about this. Pretty fascinating, isn't it? It's even a little relevant to FFL because of the naming scheme that was used to define the different geological stata that make up the canyon. They are named for different gods and goddesses and figures from Earth's mythologies. The later stata and formations, geologically, are named from Western myths. So you've got things named after Jupiter and Venus and Apollo and Thor, and a couple of others called Isis Temple and Cheops Pyramid. Then, for some of the older stata they decided to get Biblical, so you get names like Solomon's Temple and Sheba's Temple. But for the oldest strata they went to Eastern myths. So you get Brahma's Temple and Krishna's Shrine and Buddha's Cloister and Rama's Shrine. Give the fundamentalists enough time and all of these strata and formations will have been renamed after Noah and his kids. :-)
