" two sons of the Great Spirit Sahale fell in love with the beautiful maiden Loowit, who could not decide which to choose.
The two braves, Wy'east and Pahto (unnamed in his novel, but appearing in a later adaptation), burned forests and villages in their battle over her.
Sahale became enraged and smote the three lovers.
Seeing what he had done, he erected three mountain peaks to mark where each fell.
He made beautiful Mount St. Helens for Loowit, proud and erect Mount Hood for Wy'east, and the somber Mount Adams for the mourning Pahto.
There are other versions of the legend.
In another telling, Wy'east (Hood) battles Pahto (Adams) for the fair La-wa-la-clough (St. Helens).
Or again Wy'east, the chief of the Multnomah tribe, competed with the chief of the Klickitat tribe.
Their great anger led to their transformation into volcanoes.
Their battle is said to have destroyed the Bridge of the Gods and thus created the great Cascades Rapids of the Columbia River."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Hood
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" Being between Scylla and Charybdis
is an idiom deriving from Greek mythology, which has been associated with the proverbial advice "to choose the lesser of two evils".
Several other idioms, such as "on the horns of a dilemma", "between the devil and the deep blue sea", and "between a rock and a hard place" express similar meanings.
The mythical situation also developed a proverbial use in which
seeking to choose between equally dangerous extremes
is seen as leading inevitably
to disaster."
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"An Exxon spokesperson said:
“The breakdown of the shareholder proposal process, one that
allows proponents to advance their agendas
through a flood of proposals,
does not serve the interests of investors.
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'It’s been a master class in corrupt governance:
Choke transparency
while surrounding yourself with subservient institutions
that give the appearance of accountability
while providing a fig leaf
for those who use their power
to line their pockets."
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/01/clarence-thomas-ethics-inquiry-underway.html
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