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YOSEMITE, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Yosemite National Park has a transportation to an emperor of a Mongol empire, parkland officials said connected Thursday.
Yosemite's transportation comes from a poem that was written astir Kubla Khan, the grandson of Genghis Khan, 503 years aft his death, officials say.
According to parkland officials, Kubla was the grandson of the revered and feared Genghis Khan. Kubla was the laminitis and the archetypal emperor of the Mongol-lead imperial Yuan Dynasty, which stretched successful powerfulness and power from astir of present-day China, Mongolia, Korea, and Southern Siberia, to parts of the Middle East from 1271 to 1294.
Officials accidental Kubla's summertime superior was successful the renowned Xanadu, which sits connected the Outer Mongolia steppe.
After Kubla's death, 503 years aft English Poet and philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge work a portion of enactment describing Xanadu. Officials accidental the portion was written by English clergyman and geographer Samuel Purchas, based connected the writings of Marco Polo who visited Xanadu successful 1275.
Park officials accidental aft Coleridge fell asleep, helium dreamt of Xanadu portion successful an opium-influenced haze. When helium woke up helium rapidly wrote down the lines of a poem that came to him successful the dream.
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the ineffable river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgePark officials accidental that Yosemite happens to person a Stately Pleasure Dome. It sits connected the northwest broadside of Tenaya Lake and Tioga Road (southwestern information of Polly Dome.)
According to parkland officials, it was informally named by stone climbers. Stately Pleasure Dome offers a transportation to a drawstring of absorbing histories - connecting Marco Polo and Kubla Khan to the property of English Enlightenment and present Yosemite National Park.
