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Shining Rock

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James Mooney's history, myths, and sacred formulas of the Cherokees: containing the full texts of Myths of the Cherokee (1900) and The sacred formulas of the Cherokees (1891) as published by the Bureau of American Ethnology: with a new biographical introduction, James Mooney and the eastern
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name for Shining Rock, Datsu'nălâsgûñ'yĭ, translates to "where their tracks are this way" and refers to a rock that is said to have tracks of
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and contains petroglyphs. Confusion arises because Judaculla (or Jutaculla) is a European corruption of the name
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Shining Rock is named for the large white quartzite rock outcropping near its summit.
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U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Shining Rock
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This is distinct from Judaculla Rock which is discussed with
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Religious places of the Indigenous peoples of North America
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Blue Ridge Parkway
Elevation
Prominence
Coordinates
35°22′05″N 82°51′44″W / 35.36806°N 82.86222°W / 35.36806; -82.86222
Haywood County
North Carolina, U.S.
Parent range
Great Balsam Mountains
Topo map
USGS
Easiest route
North Carolina
Great Balsam Mountains
Blue Ridge Mountains
Appalachian Mountains
United States
Shining Rock Wilderness
Blue Ridge Parkway
Art Loeb Trail
Cherokee
James Mooney
Cherokee
Tsul 'Kalu
Tsul 'Kalu
Blue Ridge Parkway
Tsul 'Kalu
List of mountains in North Carolina
U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Shining Rock

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