Cultus lake, BC, Canada

Origin Notes and History
"Cultus Lake (not Swehl-tcha)" adopted in the 13th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 30 June 1914, as labelled on BC map 2B, 1914.
Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office

Labelled "Schweltza Lake" on the Royal Engineer's 1862 map "British Columbia: Hope to Similkameen and Rock Creek..." and on G.M. Dawson's 1877 Geology Map of a Portion of the Southern Interior of British Columbia.
Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office

"Cultus... is a Chinook jargon word signifying "bad" etc. The Indians believed it to be the home of 'slalakums' or evil spirits..." [letter to Denys Nelson from Professor Charles Hill-Tout, anthropologist, citing his Chilliwack report, below.] The legend concerning Cultus Lake is given by Professor Hill-Tout in the Origin of the Tluke'l Su'lia: There was once a youth who was undergoing his puberty rites and seeking his su'lia on the margin of [this lake]. This lake was the abode of Slalakum (ie. supernatural water people who lived at the bottom of lakes). One day he took a stout buckskin and pierced it with many pointed bones. This he fastened about him, and taking a large stone to weigh himself with, jumped into the lake. The story goes on to describe how he reached the bottom of the lake and falls on the roof of the Slalakum's dwelling. They all come out to see what is the matter. They take him into the house where he finds some of the inmates sick through his having been spitting into the lake. He wipes the spittle away, and also the ashes of his fire which have dropped down upon them, and thus heals them from their sickness. In return they give him the Tluke'l, an object resembling a long stout icicle. After staying with the Slalakums [awhile] he returns to the surface of the lake, taking the Tluke'l with him. When he gets home all the people are taken sick at the sight of him, and he heals them all with the Tluke'l and thus becomes a great SQEla'm. He is specially able to cure those who fall ill from contact with a Slakakum. Tidings of his adventure and the fame of his skill spread [to] neighbouring tribes and a man of the NEk a'men tribe determines to visit "Cultus Lake" and seek similar powers for himself. Accordingly in company with a friend to assist him, he sets out for the lake. They manage to get there without the knowledge of the Teil Qe'uk (Chilliwack) people in whose territory the lake lies. They brought with them a stout ste'qim (rope). They get out into the middle of the lake and the man who seeks to visit the Slalakum ties the rope to the middle of his body and jumps into the water, bidding the other pay out the slack as he descends. He carried a big stone to make him descend quickly. When he had been down a good while, the friend grew impatient and drew up the rope, at the end of which he was horrified to see the fleshless body of his friend. He had been devoured by the fish of the lake. Greatly frightened, the survivor packed up the skeleton and made his way home again as fast as he could. Deterred by the shocking fate of this man, no one hereafter sought to pay a second visit to the Slalakums of "Cultus Lake"." (Paper on the ethnography of the mainland Halkomaylem, by Charles Hill-Tout; Report of the Eth. Surv. of Canada, British Association for the Advancement of Science; Belfast, 1902, p.15)
Source: Nelson, Denys; Place Names of the Delta of the Fraser River; 1927, unpublished manuscript held in the Provincial Archives

"The anglicized form of the Halkomelem word for the lake is Sweltzer... meaning 'unclear liquid that warns secretly.' The Indians believed that dreaded supernatural creatures lived in Cultus Lake, often manifesting themselves as dirtly swirlings in the water."
Source: Akrigg, Helen B. and Akrigg, G.P.V;

British Columbia Place

Names; Sono Nis Press, Victoria 1986 /or University of British Columbia Press 1997

Source: http://grandcherokee.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=Burns&action=display&thread=234

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 Did you know that the Chilliwack First Nations believe Cultus Lake is “bottomless”.  Legend has it that a boy swimming in the lake, was swept away in a current.  The legend goes on to say that other First Nations people at Mud Bay near White Rock discovered the boy’s body sometime later, supposedly carried there by an “underground river”.

снимки на луната 18 март 2011

Ancient Aliens

Днес: http://news.exopoliticsinstitute.org/index.php/archives/890

Скептично за НЛО

Зачестяват появи на НЛО от началото на годината

От началото на годината зачестяват появи на НЛО в много страни. Историята сочи, че подобна активност е тясно свързана със световни икономически и социални проблеми или природни катаклизми.
Няма да се впускам в подробности относно предсказанията на маите, египтяните, Нострадамус, Библията и други-за това се говори достатъчно и подробно в други сайтове и книги. Не мога да не спомена обаче, разнородните поличби и "сигнални лампи", свързани с предстоящите промени, като: цъфтящото цвете Удумбара; синя луна; слънчево затъмнение по време на еклипс; предстоящите три полузатъмнение на обекти от нашата слънчева система през идната година;  пикова слънчева активност;  природни катаклизми; незнайно защо мъртви пчели, птици и риби; промяна в начина на хранене на орките; аномалии на ДНК при птиците в Аляска и Северна Америка;  аномалии в магнитното поле над Австралия и не на последно място наличието на множество неидентифицирни летящи обекти по цял свят през последните месеци.

Послание от облаци

Странното изображение от облаци, заснето от Богомил Илиев в Благоевград силно напомня на ръцете от линиите в  Наска-две ръце протегнати една към друга, едната с четири пръста, а другата с пет. Съвпадение или послание, можем само да гадаем!?

Видетото, можете да видите на този адрес: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL4fUROQc1I

Мъртви птици

В навечерието на нова година 5000 птици падат мъртви от небето.Това е начало на вълна от подобни събития по цялото земно кълбо, освен мъртви птици, намерени са и мъртви риби. Интересен неиндефициран летящ обект е  заснет на радар, наблюдаващ зоната над Арканзас. Предположението,че птиците може да са се сблъскали с нещо невидимо в небето  може да с е окаже вярна.


http://www.nationalufocenter.com/artman/publish/article_377.php



За съжаление, аномалии свързани със земното магнитно поле също може да са причина за мъртвите птици.
В статията се казва,че магнитния северен полюс (да не се бърка с географския северен полюс) се е изместил към Русия с 40 мили от началото на тази година.

http://www.afro.com/sections/news/afro_briefs/story.htm?storyid=3803

Updated Tue Jan 11 2011 7:38 AM

“We are developing the idea that our consciousness is part of the material world and that with our consciousness we can directly influence our world,” said Dr. Konstantin Korotkov, a professor of physics at St. Petersburg State Technical University....

http://rt.com/news/aura-energy-understanding-korotkov/

Updated Sun Jan 9 2011 8:18 PM

Foreign Rains in the Past

In fact, much more bizarre things have been happening for centuries, as pointed out in an Epoch Times article on foreign rains...

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/48895/

 Updated Sat Jan 8 2011 5:21 AM

Около четиристотин гълъби са намерени мъртви край път, недалеч от италианското градче Фаенца в провинция Равена, предадоха местните медии.

Все още не е ясно какво е причинило смъртта им. Няколко от мъртвите птици вече са изпратени за анализи. Специалисти предполагат, че може да става дума за епидемия или вирусна инфекция.
Припомняме, през последните две седмици в различни части на света бяха отбелязани случаи на масова смърт на птици - в няколко американски щата и в Швеция.

Updated: Fri Jan. 07 2011 6:21:19 PM

ctvmontreal.ca
SAINT-AUGUSTIN-DE-DESMAURES — Reports of dead birds falling from the sky have made headlines across the world this week, and now authorities are investigating a similar mystery near Quebec City after a farmer found about 80 dead pigeons on his property.
Sylvain Turmel told CTV Montreal's Kai Nagata he finds the whole thing unsettling.
"I opened the door and there were 25 pigeons on the ground," he said Thursday.
Turmel said the pigeons flapped their wings for a while, then died.
Over the past three weeks, Turmel said that almost every day a few more pigeons have dropped out of the sky onto his property in Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures.
There are no obvious signs of physical trauma on these birds.
Wildlife officers have taken five birds to an animal pathology lab in Quebec City for further testing.
David Bird, a McGill wildlife biologist, doesn't expect the lab results will be all that dramatic.
"It's not abnormal to have bird flocks die in large numbers," he said.
"I can tell you right now it isn't a death ray from an alien space ship, It's not a biblical prophecy coming true. It's none of those things at all."
It all started when residents in Arkansas woke up New Year's Day to find 5,000 dead blackbirds in the streets.
Since then, flocks of dead birds have turned up in Louisiana, Sweden -- the list keeps growing.
Bird said each incident has a logical cause, from fireworks to cold weather to eating road salt.
Based on the behaviour of the dying pigeons, Bird suspects foul play may be involved.
"There are a lot of people out there who don't like pigeons," he said.
People in this community believe someone is probably poisoning them on purpose.


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