Loo-poo-oi'-yes the Rock Giant of Tamalpais

Loo-poo-oi'-yes the Rock Giant of Tamalpais

The Hookooeko of Nicasio and San Rafael say:

A woman had a husband and two boy babies— twins. The woman’s brother killed her husband and the little boys did not know that they ever had a father. When they were big enough they went off every day to play by a big rock in the woods. They went always to the same place; they liked this place and always went there. This was the very place where their father, when he was alive, used to go every day to sing, but the little boys did not know this—for they did not even know that they had ever had a father.

One day the boys heard somebody say: “You come here every day just as your father used to.” The voice came from the rock; it was the voice of Loo'-poo-oi'-yes 31 the Rock Giant. Then the boys knew they had had a father. They went to the rock and saw long hairs sticking up. These hairs grew out of the nostrils of Loo'-poo-oi'-yes; the boys took hold of them and pulled them out.

This made Loo'-poo-oi'-yes angry and he took a long hooked stick and tried to catch the boys to kill them. He was all rock except a place on his throat where he wore an abalone shell. The boys, saw this and shot their arrows through it and killed him. When he died he fell to pieces; the pieces were rocks and scattered over the ground. Inside he was flesh like other people, but outside he was rock, except the place on his throat where the abalone shell was.

Footnotes

235:31 The name Loo'-poo-oi'-yes means literally the old man of rock, from loo'poo rock, and oi'yes old man.

Bibliographical Information

C. Hart Merriam

C. Hart Merriam (Clinton Hart Merriam, M.D.), 1855-1942, ed. The Dawn of the World; Tales Told by the Mewan Indians of California, Collected and Edited by C. Hart Merriam (Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1910). 273 p. including plates (some in color). map. color frontispiece. Octavo, 25 cm. Bown in red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Rough-cut pages, top edge gilt. Library of Congress Call Number E99.M69 M5. LCCN 10-009808. Bibliographies: Clark & Burnet 160, Cowan (2) 425, Rocq. 15596. Note: Mewan is an southern Miwok variation of Miwok and means “people.”

Scanned by J. B. Hare, redactor, at sacred-texts.com, August 2003. These files may be used for any non-commercial purpose, provided this notice of attribution is left intact.

• According to Frank Latta, in Handbook of the Yokuts Indians (1949), pp. 89-90, some of these stories are actually Yokuts myths, with Mewuk names substituted for Yokuts names. Chowchilla Mewuk informants should have been identified as Chowchilla Yokuts and Hool-poom-ne Mewuk should have been identified as Hulpumne Yokuts.

Che-ha-lum'-che



Che-ha-lum'-che the Rock Giant catching People to eat

THE ROCK GIANTS

Che-ha-lum'-che the Rock Giant of Calaveras County

The Northern Mewuk say:

Che-ha-lum'-che the Rock Giant carries on his back a big burden basket (che'-ka-la) which, like himself, is of rock. He lives in caves, of which there are two near Mountain Ranch or El Dorado in Calaveras County, one at Murphys, and one on Stanislaus River.

Che-ha-lum'-che comes out only at night and wanders about seeking Mewuk [people] to eat. He prefers women; of these he catches and carries off all he can find. Sometimes he makes a crying noise, hoo-oo'-oo like a baby, to lure them. If they come he seizes them and tosses them into his big pack basket and carries them to his cave, where he eats them. In the basket is a long spike which pierces their bodies when they are thrown in, so they can not escape.

In his caves are the remains of his victims—horns of deer and bones of people and different kinds of animals.

Indians never throw their dead into caves. If they did, Che-ha-lum'-che would get them. Any man who would put a dead person in a cave would be killed by the other Indians. 30

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Footnotes

232:30 Many human skulls and skeletons have been found in eaves along the west slope of the middle Sierra. The presence of human remains in these caves has been interpreted to mean that the Indians now living in the region practise cave burial, or did practise it until recent times. This is an error. The Indians of this region, the Mewuk, burned their dead, and look with horror on the suggestion that they or their ancestors might ever have put their dead in caves. They ask: “Would you put your mother, or your wife, or your child, or any one you love, in a cave to be eaten by a horrible giant?” The idea is so abhorrent to them that the theory of cave burial must be abandoned as preposterous.

The mythology of the Mewuk does not admit of any migration but describes the creation of the people in the area they still inhabit. This, in connection with the fact that these Indians speak a language wholly different from any known in any other part of the world, proves that they have occupied the lands they now occupy for a very long period—a period—which in my judgment should be measured by thousands of years.

This argues a great antiquity for the cave remains, for they must be those of a people who inhabited the region before the Mewuk came—and this takes us back a very long way into the past.

Bibliographical Information

C. Hart Merriam

C. Hart Merriam (Clinton Hart Merriam, M.D.), 1855-1942, ed. The Dawn of the World; Tales Told by the Mewan Indians of California, Collected and Edited by C. Hart Merriam (Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1910). 273 p. including plates (some in color). map. color frontispiece. Octavo, 25 cm. Bown in red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Rough-cut pages, top edge gilt. Library of Congress Call Number E99.M69 M5. LCCN 10-009808. Bibliographies: Clark & Burnet 160, Cowan (2) 425, Rocq. 15596. Note: Mewan is an southern Miwok variation of Miwok and means “people.”

Scanned by J. B. Hare, redactor, at sacred-texts.com, August 2003. These files may be used for any non-commercial purpose, provided this notice of attribution is left intact.

• According to Frank Latta, in Handbook of the Yokuts Indians (1949), pp. 89-90, some of these stories are actually Yokuts myths, with Mewuk names substituted for Yokuts names. Chowchilla Mewuk informants should have been identified as Chowchilla Yokuts and Hool-poom-ne Mewuk should have been identified as Hulpumne Yokuts.
  

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The Unexplained

With so many unexplained disappearances there must be some connecting links between all these cases. I've listed some of the strangeness below. More detailed information can be found in Mr. Paulides books on the subject.

In David Paulides books covering the Eastern & Western US is a map that is included showing the numerous cluster cases found. Clusters are grouped together by when and where they happened, time, and type. Whats highly unusual is there is a corridor right down the middle where there are no cases found. Strange as this may be the missing persons issues are not all recent some depending on the region have been going on for centuries.

Information is not always easily obtained, there's been difficulty even when the Freedom of Information Act has been used to obtain information. A few of the cases information was withheld for no real apparent good reason. This also raises suspicion that someone may indeed know more.

It's also hard to believe that the National Park Service according to policy doesn't keep track of the missing people inside their system and they have no lists of the missing. Wouldn't a wise response be to keep track of missing individuals.

Another puzzling factor is the bone fragments found, in a few of the cases, all that was left was a skull and a few teeth. Which brings us to a good question what happened to the rest of the body. Oddly clothing, such as the pants have been taken off and left lying near the scene. The pants are sometimes inside out and not to mention no blood found on the articles of clothing. Boots are missing. Some of the clothing that would have been worn has disappeared and never been found.

 

Is there a logical conclusion, I honestly could not answer that.

The CanAm Missing Project

http://www.canammissing.com/page/page/8396197.htm

http://www.canammissing.com/jaryd-atadero.html

Connecting the dots... Similarities do exist.

What exactly is going on and who or what is involved. If anyone could have answered that then they would have solved the million dollar question.