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"):
  • Mount Susitna, near Anchorage, Alaska
  • Mount Timpanogos, near Provo, Utah^[1]
  • Mount Tamalpais, near San Francisco, California.
• 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

• 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

• Breast-shaped hill
• Dead woman
• Northumberlandia

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

1. https://www.nps.gov/tica/learn/historyculture/the-legend-of-timpanogos.htm The Legend of Timpanogos
2. Algérie, les guides bleus, Hachette, Paris, 1974, p. 197
3. http://picasaweb.google.com/105118955749102400357/KampongChhnang#5011194486340177538 Kong Rei Mountain
4. http://www.weihsien-paintings.org/KimSmith/PhotosSketches/Kunming/p_a001.htm Western Mountain Forest Reserve.
5. http://www.danxiashan.org.cn/html/2013/dxmw_0917/2667.html Danxia Range - Sleeping Maiden
6. Book: Clammer, Paul. Morocco p.192. 2009. Lonely Planet. 536. 9781741049718.