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3814 - Santa Rosa, California, United States of America

A photo of Mount Shasta and Lake Shastina, taken by Erich Ziller. 

Mount Shasta, or Waka-nunee-Tuki-wuki (Karuk people), is a potentially active stratovolcano located in Siskiyou County in Northern California. It is the second highest peak (4322 m) in the Cascade Mountains. The last known eruption of Mount Shasta was around 1250, based on radiocarbon dating. The first written record of the mountain was made on 20 May 1817 by Narciso Durán, a member of the 
Luis Antonio Argüello expedition into the upper areas of the Sacramento River Valley. Peter Skene Ogden of the Hudson's Bay Company recorded a sighting in 1826, and in 1827 the mountain was given the name Sasty or Sastise. The United States Exploring Expedition named in Mount Shasta in 1841. 

The Klamath peoples in the area believe that the mountain is inhabited by the Spirit of the Above-World, Skell, who descended from heaven to the mountain's summit at the request of a Klamath chief. Skell fought with the Spirit of the Below-World, Llao, who lived at Mount Mazama, by throwing hot rocks and lava, probably representing the volcanic eruptions at both mountains. 

The Harmonic Convergence in August of 1987 described Mount Shasta as one of a small number of global "power centres." Mount Shasta remains a focus of New Age attention. The writer of the card mentions they were there for a weekend and said Mount Shasta has "lots of spiritual lure..."

There is also a story of a "Batsquatch" - a humanoid creature with bat-like features; stocky, with leathery wings fifty feet from one end to the other and the face of a bat. 




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