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Guide Rock, whose Pawnee name is Pa-hur or Pahur, is a hill in south central Nebraska in the United States. In the traditional Pawnee religion, it was one of five dwelling places of spirit animals with miraculous powers. In 1806, Zebulon Pike found a large Pawnee village nearby; he persuaded the inhabitants to lower the flag of Spain and replace it with that of the United States. The hill's English name was given to the nearby village of Guide Rock, Nebraska. ==Description== Guide Rock is located in Webster County, Nebraska. It lies southeast of the town that bears its name, on the south side of the Republican River and just east of Rankin Creek.〔''Nebraska Atlas & Gazeteer''. Freeport, Maine: Delorme. 1st edition, 1996. p. 74.〕 Descriptions of the landform vary. The United States Geological Survey classifies it as a "pillar",〔 which it defines as a "()ertical, standing, often spire-shaped, natural rock formation".〔("Feature class definitions". ) (Geographic Names Information System. ) Retrieved 2010-09-17.〕 A local writer described it as a "vast rocky bluff".〔Ohmstede, Bonnie. ("Guide Rock—Webster County". ) (Nebraska... Our Towns. ) Retrieved 2010-09-17.〕 However, the authors of ''Roadside Geology of Nebraska'' state that it is "not so much a rock as a loess bluff of modest size".〔Maher, Harmon D., George F. Engelmann, and Robert D. Shuster (2003). ''Roadside Geology of Nebraska''. Missoula, Montana: Mountain Press Publishing Company. p. 162.〕 The difference might be due to human action: in 1973, it was reported that of the five sacred places of the Pawnee, four, including this one, had been "extensively damaged or totally destroyed".〔Jensen, Richard E. (1973). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory—Nomination Form: Pahuk".〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Guide Rock (hill)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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