The Sleeping Lady

Sleeping Lady from Anchorage, Alaska at dusk

View of La Mujer Muerta, the dead woman, Segovia Province, Spain.

View of Sumaq Puñuq (La Bella Durmiente), a limestone mountain range in the shape of a woman in Tingo Maria National Park, José Crespo Y Castillo District, Peru.

Mountains

The Sleeping Lady (sometimes called The Sleeping Maiden) is a nickname for the following mountains:

• Western United States (in both cases, the nickname is associated with an apocryphal Native American legend of "The Sleeping Lady"):
  • Mount Tamalpais, near San Francisco, California
  • Mount Susitna, near Anchorage, Alaska.
• Cambodia: Kong Rei
• Mexico: Iztaccíhuatl
• Thailand: Doi Nang Non
• Peru: Sumaq Puñuq (Sleeping Beauty)

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.

The Sleeping Lady, Museum of Archaeology, Valletta, Malta

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

• Breast shaped hill

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