Significance behind Crater Lake mythology stories

Crater Lake was formerly considered a very dangerous place best to be avoided, and that in the ‘”old days” only a “very strong man'' would dare approach it.

Cultural Significance: About

"The people, it was believed, were being punished for their arrogance and decadence: for not recognizing the prerogatives of chiefs or supernatural beings, for inappropriate relations between people of different sex or status, for the wanton killing of animals. As one Klamath suggested in a 1999 interview" (Deur, 2002)

Cultural Significance: Text

It was considered sacred to bathe in the crystal waters of Crater Lake. Glories such as wisdom and strength, their tribe will be the grandest in the land, as well as the tales of healing waters. Each time a tribesmen would bathe in its waters they would emerge faster and stronger. Only to endure the fate of all of those who dare defile such a holy place. Many spirits reside there and cause a gruesome death to those who trespass.

Cultural Significance: Text

After witnessing their homeland destroyed with perhaps one of the most violent eruptions in the last 7,000 years, the implications were presented in a cosmological manner. There is a reoccurring theme among eruption narratives and that is that they are the retribution for the peoples violation of taboos.

Cultural Significance: Text