Mount Taylor Summit

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Mount Taylor (Diné: Tsoodził) is a 11,301 ft (3,445 m) stratovolcano in northwest New Mexico. It was named in 1849 for then president Zachary Taylor. Prior to that, it was called Cebolleta (tender onion) by the Spanish. Mount Taylor is largely forested, rising like a blue cone above the desert below.

To the Navajo people, Mount Taylor is Tsoodził, the turquoise mountain, one of the four sacred mountains marking the cardinal directions and the boundaries of the Dinetah, the traditional Navajo homeland. Mount Taylor marks the southern boundary, and is associated with the direction south and the color blue; it is gendered female. In Navajo mythology, First Man created the sacred mountains from soil from the Fourth World, together with sacred matter, as replicas of mountains from that world. He fastened Mount Taylor to the earth with a stone knife. The supernatural beings Black God, Turquoise Boy, and Turquoise Girl are said to reside on the mountain. Mount Taylor is also sacred to the Acoma, Laguna and Zuni people. (credit Wikipedia)

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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Taylor_(New_Mexico)
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Coordinates:   35°14'19"N   107°36'30"W

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  • Uranium has been mined on both sides of the mountain and it is certain that there is more under the mountain. yet geothermal heat would make it extremely hazardous to mine. Heat in this case being more dangerous then the radiation.
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