The Sleeping Lady
Mountains
The Sleeping Lady (sometimes called The Sleeping Maiden) is a nickname for the following mountains:
Similarly named mountains
- La Noyée (the 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.
- Sleeping Beauty, mountain in Kalinga province, northern Philippines.
- La Mujer Muerta (the dead woman). A mountain range located in the Sistema Central, Spain. Highest point La Pinareja, 2197 m.
- Den Sovende Dronning (The Sleeping Queen), also known as Skjomtind, a mountain range near Narvik, Norway.
Figurine
The Sleeping Lady is a small stone figurine recovered in the prehistoric Hypogeum of Ħal-Saflieni. This figurine is held in the Museum of Archaeology, in Valletta, Malta.
See also
Further reading
- 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
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