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MT DIABLO IS NOT NAMED AFTER THE DEVIL/IS NOT A VOLCANO!!
Geologists state that Mt Diablo is not a volcano but it sure looks like one, as geologists, as the primary sources have stated that they are still trying to figure it out. We know the rocks are very old but the mountian itself is very young. Why am i talking about Mt Diablo, it stands at 3,849 feet in Danville borderlines and takes up a portion of Danville, so it has and is part of Diablo history. The view from Mt Diablo, which is the highest Mountain in the S.F Bay area, can see as far as 200 miles to the east, north and south, and to the Pacific Ocean on a clear
day.
What also makes Mt Diablo part of Danville history are the facts that Native people felt to have quite significant value to the mountain. The Juipun saw it as the center of the world for them and the birthplace of the world. Hundreds of miles away in the Sierra Nevada, some Northern Miwok saw it as a place where the supernatural beings lit the world and landscape around them, that the mountain touched the sky. The Central Miwok featured Mt Diablo as part of their most sacred ceremonies. The Wintun, their spiritual leaders prayed to the creator from the summit of the mountain. The Volvon , an early area native group, it was part of the homeland which included the summit and most of the mountain an they were a Bay Miwok speaking people. The mountain as early as 1811 was called Cerro Alto de los Bolbones(High Point of the Volvon). Mt Diablo for the 25 independent tribal groups that lived near or around the mountain, Mt Diablo is a spiritual place of worship.
So why the name Mt Diablo, the fire mountain as some call it, though it has lore that it is not a volcano or was one maybe 165 million years ago. Some California geologists say that a giant fold of rock happened some 2 million years ago,with the fault lines of both the Calaveras and the Diablo faults does support this. Sandstone and bedrock make up most of Mt Diablo as seen with Rock City, Castle Rock, Fossil Ridge and Devil's Slide. So why is the lore of giant Mt Diablo still are heard by some, of a old old volcano, when geologists say otherwise. The name El Diablo can be traced back to 1805 when Spanish military troops searched for runaway mission Indians. What is now called Buchanan fields in Concord, a group of Chupcan Indians escaped the Spanish during the night, after being surrounded, disappearing forever into the night and up on to the mountain top. The Spanish both angry and confused, called the mountain "Monte Del Diablo or the "Thicket of the Devil". The word "Monte" was later translated into Mount so to take in the real history of the Spanish and English words, though it was an linguistic accident that this occured.
The lore of Mount Diablo continues even today, though many people who speak of this being an old volcano, as really secondary knowledge brought through both myth and words of mouth and transferred through generations. People who do not know the true history of the mountain, asks when that old devil's mountain going to erupt again and it has been millions of years, or is indeed now extinct. You have to really laugh at this type of talk of the TALLEST MOUNTAIN in the Bay Area. You have to think with the double peak and the overall dimensions of the mountain, it does look very like an volcano but it is not and far from it!
MT DIABLO IS NOT NAMED AFTER THE DEVIL/IS NOT A VOLCANO!!
Geologists state that Mt Diablo is not a volcano but it sure looks like one, as geologists, as the primary sources have stated that they are still trying to figure it out. We know the rocks are very old but the mountian itself is very young. Why am i talking about Mt Diablo, it stands at 3,849 feet in Danville borderlines and takes up a portion of Danville, so it has and is part of Diablo history. The view from Mt Diablo, which is the highest Mountain in the S.F Bay area, can see as far as 200 miles to the east, north and south, and to the Pacific Ocean on a clear
day.
What also makes Mt Diablo part of Danville history are the facts that Native people felt to have quite significant value to the mountain. The Juipun saw it as the center of the world for them and the birthplace of the world. Hundreds of miles away in the Sierra Nevada, some Northern Miwok saw it as a place where the supernatural beings lit the world and landscape around them, that the mountain touched the sky. The Central Miwok featured Mt Diablo as part of their most sacred ceremonies. The Wintun, their spiritual leaders prayed to the creator from the summit of the mountain. The Volvon , an early area native group, it was part of the homeland which included the summit and most of the mountain an they were a Bay Miwok speaking people. The mountain as early as 1811 was called Cerro Alto de los Bolbones(High Point of the Volvon). Mt Diablo for the 25 independent tribal groups that lived near or around the mountain, Mt Diablo is a spiritual place of worship.
So why the name Mt Diablo, the fire mountain as some call it, though it has lore that it is not a volcano or was one maybe 165 million years ago. Some California geologists say that a giant fold of rock happened some 2 million years ago,with the fault lines of both the Calaveras and the Diablo faults does support this. Sandstone and bedrock make up most of Mt Diablo as seen with Rock City, Castle Rock, Fossil Ridge and Devil's Slide. So why is the lore of giant Mt Diablo still are heard by some, of a old old volcano, when geologists say otherwise. The name El Diablo can be traced back to 1805 when Spanish military troops searched for runaway mission Indians. What is now called Buchanan fields in Concord, a group of Chupcan Indians escaped the Spanish during the night, after being surrounded, disappearing forever into the night and up on to the mountain top. The Spanish both angry and confused, called the mountain "Monte Del Diablo or the "Thicket of the Devil". The word "Monte" was later translated into Mount so to take in the real history of the Spanish and English words, though it was an linguistic accident that this occured.
The lore of Mount Diablo continues even today, though many people who speak of this being an old volcano, as really secondary knowledge brought through both myth and words of mouth and transferred through generations. People who do not know the true history of the mountain, asks when that old devil's mountain going to erupt again and it has been millions of years, or is indeed now extinct. You have to really laugh at this type of talk of the TALLEST MOUNTAIN in the Bay Area. You have to think with the double peak and the overall dimensions of the mountain, it does look very like an volcano but it is not and far from it!
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Does Mt Diablo have local significance to the S.F Bay Area and also California, you betttacha! Mt Diablo does not only have the history lore of the Spanish and Indigenous people to add to the history of both the S.F Bay Area and California but it is history itself. The mountain was used to stand atop of and chart areas of the S.F Bay Area and California by the Spanish and then Anglos in the 19th century, being almost 4,000 feet in altitude. You could also say that Mt Diablo is also part of history, in the Indigenous people used the mountian for both their religious and spiritual ceremonies. One of the last of the great Grizzly bears was hunted and also killed at the base of the mountain. Mt Diablo does make up a certain amount of local and California history and it still does, as thousands still flock there to view the Bay Area or California on a clear day, hike or view wildlife. (oh where oh where has my grizzly bear gone....only you..can prevent wildfires!!)
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