List of mountains named The Sleeping Lady explained
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"
- 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]
Phnom Kong Rei.[3]
- Chile, in the Andes, Valle del Maipo Chile.
- China
Morne Larcher (Larcher Hill) called " la femme couchée" (the sleeping woman) is located in Diamant, Martinique.
Iztaccíhuatl
Den Sovende Dronning (The Sleeping Queen), also known as Skjomtind, a mountain range near Narvik, Norway.
Sleeping Beauty of Quetta. A Mountain called 'Sleeping Beauty' is also located in Quetta, Pakistan.
Sleeping Beauty, mountain in Kalinga province, northern Philippines.
Mount Guanyin, in New Taipei City Taiwan.
Similarly named mountains
- 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; Castilian: 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.
See also
Further reading
- Dixon, Ann. (1994). The Sleeping Lady. Anchorage, AK : Alaska Northwest Books. (hardbound) (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.
Notes and References
- https://www.nps.gov/tica/learn/historyculture/the-legend-of-timpanogos.htm The Legend of Timpanogos
- Algérie, les guides bleus, Hachette, Paris, 1974, p. 197
- http://picasaweb.google.com/105118955749102400357/KampongChhnang#5011194486340177538 Kong Rei Mountain
- http://www.weihsien-paintings.org/KimSmith/PhotosSketches/Kunming/p_a001.htm Western Mountain Forest Reserve.
- http://www.danxiashan.org.cn/html/2013/dxmw_0917/2667.html Danxia Range - Sleeping Maiden
- Book: Clammer, Paul. Morocco p.192. 2009. Lonely Planet. 536. 9781741049718.