Eye Of God

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46370-46458 Quartz Lane, Lucerne Valley, CA 92356
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• J. M. Clearwater

  Oct, 19 2018
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  A historic, sacred site of the native Yuhaviatam Clan of Serrano Indians. In the late 1800s, Spanish missionaries named the native people of Big Bear, Serrano, meaning “mountaineer” or “highlander.” Since earliest times, however, they called themselves the Yuhaviatam, “People of the Pines.” Their creation stories involves a God, Kruktat, who created the People. When Kruktat fell ill he journeyed to the mountains, where he lay dying in a bear cave. Tended by the First People, he was taken to Maktsuk, today's Pan Hot Springs, where be was bathed by human caretakers. Knowing he was dying, Kruktat instructed the people to cremate him and protect his body from Coyote, who eats dead things. Kruktat died near present day Baldwin Lake. According to legend, during the cremation the eye of Kruktut flew out and became the huge, snow quartz rock known as Aapahunane’t, or God’s Eye. Legend says that the unusually large white quartz outcropping is God watching to make sure the People treat each other well. While the people were dancing in a circle around Kruktat’s cremation pyre, Coyote snuck through the bowed legs of bear and snatched Kruktat’s heart in his mouth. The people hit Coyote, and as he ran into the mountains above Baldwin Lake, the dripping blood turned the rocky soil red. When the creator died the people mourned and their tears turned into pine trees, the area called Yuhaviat. The nuts from the trees became food for the Yuhaviatam, or People of the Pines. The quartz outcropping was originally a large, full dome, but was dynamited during 1940’s in the search for gold. To this day the area around Baldwin Lake and the Big Bear Valley remains culturally significant to the San Manuel Band.

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