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to the Happy Hunting Grounds of Chieftains.’

   “In the 1850's the names given this hole changed. It was referred to as the ‘Devil's Den,’ ‘The Entrance to Hell,’ ‘The Pit of Demons’ and 'The Entrance to Erebus’. (Erebus is Greek Mythology meaning a dark region under the earth through which the ‘shades’ of the dead pass on the way to Hades.)

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#45 --- Pages 52-53 of the SAME book ("THE INCREDIBLE CITIES OF INNER EARTH") contains the following:

   "Aside from the known openings there could very well be many times this amount, formed in the past 100 centuries, replacing those that are closed or even partially closed. The ‘Endless Caverns of Luray’ could be a possibility, for no actual end to tunnels keep cropping up as they branch out to newer cavity vaults. In this same regard, the ‘Lost Sea’ of Tennessee still carries great unexplained mysteries. During the reign of the Iroquois Indians and neighboring tribes of the Tennessee valley, legends became history. The Indian Chief, in search of a safe hiding place during the Civil War - for himself and for his tribe, entered a small opening located just north of Sweetwater and did not surface for nine years. By then the war had ended. To the surprise of other tribesmen, the Chief and his Iroquois tribe emerged in perfect health and better then when they entered nine years previously. They described their stay at the grand "God's Teepee" that existed below a great sea deep within the earth. Food was not a problem for it was plentiful, fears were lost in the excellency of a (vast) hidden chamber and sickness was not even dreamed of. The temperature was cool and remained constant, water was pure and plant life manifested itself to daily feasts. Animals existed