List of mountains named The Sleeping Lady
The Sleeping woman is a name or nickname for certain mountain formations located in different places in the world that are said to look like a reclining or deceased woman in the local tradition.
Ranges by the name of "The Sleeping Lady"
[edit]- Western United States (in all three cases, the nickname is associated with an apocryphal Native American legend of "The Sleeping Lady"):
- Algeria: Mount Chenoua, according to local tradition the mountain range looks like a reclining pregnant woman.[2]
- Cambodia: Phnom Kong Rei.[3]
- Chile, in the Andes, Valle del Maipo Chile.
- China:
- Sleeping Beauty Range (睡美人山) near Kunming.[4]
- Sleeping Beauty, Danxia near Shaoguan city.[5]
- Leonidio, in Arcadia, Peloponnese Greece.
- Martinique: Morne Larcher (Larcher Hill) called " la femme couchée" (the sleeping woman) is located in Diamant, Martinique.
- Mexico: Iztaccíhuatl
- Norway: Den Sovende Dronning (The Sleeping Queen), also known as Skjomtind, a mountain range near Narvik, Norway.
- Pakistan: Sleeping Beauty of Quetta. A Mountain called 'Sleeping Beauty' is also located in Quetta, Pakistan.
- Panama, La India Dormida (The Sleeping Indian Woman) in El Valle de Anton.
- Peru, La Bella Durmiente (The Sleeping Beauty) in Tingo María
- Philippines: Sleeping Beauty, mountain in Kalinga province, northern Philippines.
- Mount Makiling, mountain in Laguna, Philippines.
- Taiwan: Mount Guanyin, in New Taipei City Taiwan.
- Thailand:
- Doi Nang Non in the Daen Lao Range, northern Thailand.
- Khao Nang Non in Nakhon Si Thammarat province, southern Thailand.
Similarly named mountains
[edit]- La Noyée (drowned lady). A mountain range seen from Notre-Dame-des-Monts, Quebec. Local legend says the mountains are the silhouette of a Native American woman who drowned while swimming across Lac Nairne to meet her lover.
- La Mujer Muerta (the dead woman). A mountain range located in the Sistema Central, Spain. Highest point La Pinareja, 2197 m.
- Turó de la Dona Morta (Dead Woman hill), a mountain near Maçanet de la Selva, Catalonia, Spain
- Jebel Musa (Morocco) the mountain is also known as The Dead Woman (Spanish: la Mujer Muerta), because from the direction of Ceuta, around the town of Benzú, it resembles a woman on her back.[6]
- The Virgin Gorda; Spanish for the fat virgin, as the island looks like an overweight woman lying on her side.
Ranges by the name of The Sleeping or the Dead Lady
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See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Dixon, Ann. (1994). The Sleeping Lady. Anchorage, AK : Alaska Northwest Books. ISBN 0-88240-444-X (hardbound) ISBN 0-88240-495-4 (paperback)
- Robertson, David (1991). "Mt. Tamalpais: The Legendary Birth of a Holy Mountain". California History. 70 (2): 146–161.
- Skolnick, Sharon. (1989). Dreams of Tamalpais. San Francisco: Last Gasp. ISBN 0-86719-357-3
References
[edit]- ^ The Legend of Timpanogos Archived 2018-07-07 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Algérie, les guides bleus, Hachette, Paris, 1974, p. 197
- ^ Kong Rei Mountain
- ^ Western Mountain Forest Reserve. Archived 2015-02-20 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Danxia Range - Sleeping Maiden Archived 2015-02-21 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Clammer, Paul (2009). Morocco p.192. Lonely Planet. p. 536. ISBN 9781741049718.
This set index article includes a list of mountains that share the same name (or similar names).