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Shasta

noun

A member of the Indian people of northern California and southern Oregon.

A volcanic mountain peak in the Cascade Range in northern California (14,162 feet high). Synonym: Mount Shasta.

The Shastan language spoken by the Shasta.

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"Shasta" Quotes from Famous Books

... Washington, Oregon, and northern California are one of the best examples of such a landscape; from its low swelling summits rise at intervals the powerful master cones of Shasta, Rainier, Adams, Hood, Baker, and others. Fujiyama, the celebrated mountain of Japan, may be cited as a familiar example of the basic mountain form, the single-cone volcanic peak. Vesuvius is a familiar example of simple complication, ...

— The Book of the National Parks • Robert Sterling Yard

... Consciousness, it may be of assistance just now to consider in what more or less rudimentary way or ways it figured in the pagan rituals and in Christianity. We have seen the rude Siberyaks in North-Eastern Asia or the 'Grizzly' tribes of North American Indians in the neighborhood of Mount Shasta paying their respects and adoration to a captive bear—at once the food-animal, and the divinity of the Tribe. A tribesman had slain a bear—and, be it said, had slain it not in a public hunt with all due ceremonies observed, but privately for his own satisfaction. He had committed, ...

— Pagan & Christian Creeds - Their Origin and Meaning • Edward Carpenter

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