May 15, 2012

Astro-tourism at Pyramid Lake

Astro-Tourism Hits Pyramid Lake

The planets are literally aligning this weekend over a crowd of 8,000 people who will be on Native American lands that have been closed to crowds like this for more than two decades.

By Kyril (Ky) Plaskon
The planets are literally aligning this weekend over a crowd of 8,000 people who will be on Native American lands that have been closed to crowds like this for more than two decades.

“It is a significant moment, it is the alignment of the three heavenly bodies that sustain our life,” said Paul West of Symbiosis, a 6-day music festival that will rock and sway the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribal lands starting Wednesday.

Symbiosis is a festival that moves and according to celestial and other epic scenic locations. This time, that celestial scene appearing in the Reno area is the position of the moon in front of the sun, an eclipse that begins shortly after 5 p.m., Sunday. Only a few places are graced with being able to take advantage of this astro-tourism.

The Reno area is one of only four places in the nation where this eclipse, called an “annular eclipse” will be fully visible.
Comment:  For more on Native-themed festivals, see Balloon Festival in Monument Valley and 2011 South Dakota Festival of Books.

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