Psai-Yah-hus

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, retrieved 2015-07-05
  3. ↑ Ron Richardson (March 22, 2002), Fauntleroy thumbnail history, HistoryLink
  4. 1 2 3 R. S. Ludwin, C. P. Thrush, K. James, D. Buerge, C. Jonientz-Trisler, J. Rasmussen, K. Troost, and 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
  5. ↑ True, Kathryn; Dolan, Maria (2003), Nature in the City Seattle, The Mountaineers Books, p. 185, ISBN 9780898868791
  6. 1 2 Piccardi, Luigi; Masse, W. Bruce (2007), "Myth and Geology", Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 273: 67–94, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.2007.273.01.07, ISBN 9781862392168 |contribution= ignored (help)
  7. ↑ Yeates, Robert S. (2004), "Ghost Forests, Raised Shorelines, and the Seattle Fault", Living with Earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest (PDF) (Second ed.), Oregon State University Press, pp. 109–118, ISBN 0-87071-024-9
  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
  9. ↑ David Bressan (October 28, 2012), "An Essential Field Guide to North American Earthquake Beasts", History of Geology, Scientific American blogs

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

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