Mt. Rainier. Takhoma. Or known to the Lummi Indian’s Duh’hwahk.
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Takhoma is the stubborn, but beautiful wife of Kulshan (Mt. Baker) who left home to travel south out of envy, spite, and false hope.
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Legend goes she left Kulshan hoping to turn his indifferent heart in her favor. She packed a sack of berries, fruit, sweet bulbs, and plentiful flowering plants and moved south weaving her way through the valley floor, constantly turning back hoping to see Kulshan calling out to her from her northern home. Soon she was too far to hope to see him from the valley so she rose to the hills craning her neck, perched on her toes looking north in vain.
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Too tired to move on she set up camp and cast her bounty of berries, flowers, and fruit to bless the land the land around her with things that remind her of home. There she remains to this day, higher than all the peaks, looking longingly North towards her husband and children, broken hearted, but surrounded by her bounty of beauty.
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