Talk:Bridge of the Gods (geologic event)

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Has it been verified geologically? Everything I've seem refers to it as an Indian myth. The size of the Columbia also makes it highly unlikely.

"According to the lore of these tribes, long ago a huge landslide of rocks roared into the Columbia River near Cascade Locks and eventually formed a natural stone bridge that spanned the river. The bridge came to be called Tamanawas Bridge, or Bridge of the Gods. In the center of the arch burned the only fire in the world, so of course the site was sacred to Native Americans. They came from north, south, west, and east to get embers for their own fires from the sacred fire." [1]
Yes, the original contributor was on target here. I don't have a citation right now, but I am sure that it has been researched and verified geologically. I'll insert an appropriate reference when/if I come across it again. Ipoellet 18:46, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed merge

The articles Bridge of the Gods (geologic event) and Bonneville Slide deal with overlapping and very closely related topics. Specifically, the Slide article appears to approach the issue as a geophysical event investigated through contemporary scientific methods, while the Bridge article examines the same event through the lens of Native American folklore. Both aspects could be given added dimension by being dealt with in a single article, with text specific to each aspect separated out under distinct headlines.

I recommend "Bridge" to be the final destination article name because: (a) it is the older name for referring to the same historic event; (b) it seems to be the better known name, i.e. I'd heard the Bridge of the Gods name before coming to Wikipedia, but not Bonneville Slide; and (c) it stands in neat complementarity to Bridge of the Gods (modern structure).

See also: Wikipedia:Merging and moving pages

-Ipoellet 20:19, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

  • merge: both articles are a bit light on content now and will combine nicely. Having them separate is a light shade of POV actually. :-) —EncMstr 20:31, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
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