Jump to content

Breast-shaped hill: Difference between revisions

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Browse history interactively
← Previous editNext edit →
Content deleted Content added
VisualWikitext
mNo edit summary
Tags: Reverted Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
uncited, unencyclopaedic tone
Line 186: Line 186:
[[File:"The_Bubbles" at Acadia National Park, ME IMG_2475.JPG|thumb|The Bubbles on [[Jordan Pond]] in [[Acadia National Park]] ]]
[[File:"The_Bubbles" at Acadia National Park, ME IMG_2475.JPG|thumb|The Bubbles on [[Jordan Pond]] in [[Acadia National Park]] ]]
;United States
;United States
* [[Alaska]] - Located in Eagle River there is a mountain that is known as titty mountain. It looks just like a boob with a nipple on the very top.
* [[Bubble Mountains]], in [[Acadia National Park]] of Maine.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nhmountainhiking.com/hike/bubble/profile.jpg |title=Bubble Mountains |work=Hike Bubble Mountains ME |date= July 2010 |access-date=2 September 2011}}</ref>
* [[Bubble Mountains]], in [[Acadia National Park]] of Maine.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nhmountainhiking.com/hike/bubble/profile.jpg |title=Bubble Mountains |work=Hike Bubble Mountains ME |date= July 2010 |access-date=2 September 2011}}</ref>
*[[Isanaklesh Peaks]], in [[Maricopa County, Arizona]], formerly known as Squaw Tits.
*[[Isanaklesh Peaks]], in [[Maricopa County, Arizona]], formerly known as Squaw Tits.

Revision as of 22:12, 24 May 2023

A breast-shaped hill in the Western Sahara
There is an ancient Iberian archaeological site beneath the Mola Murada, one of the mountains of the Moles de Xert, Spain.

A breast-shaped hill is a hill in the shape of a breast. Some such hills are named "Pap", an archaic word for the breast or nipple of a woman. Such anthropomorphic geographic features are found in different places of the world and in some cultures they were revered as the attributes of the Mother Goddess, such as the Paps of Anu, named after Anu, an important female deity of pre-Christian Ireland.[1]

Overview

The Mamelon Central, formed by the Bory and Dolomieu craters, Piton de la Fournaise, on 28 brumaire 1801. Drawing by Jean-Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent.

The name Mamucium that gave origin to the name of the city of Manchester is thought to derive from the Celtic language meaning "breast-shaped hill", referring to the sandstone bluff on which the fort stood; this later evolved into the name Manchester.[2][3]

Breast-shaped hills are often connected with local ancestral veneration of the breast as a symbol of fertility and well-being. It is not uncommon for very old archaeological sites to be located in or below such hills, as on Samson, Isles of Scilly, where there are large ancient burial grounds both on the North Hill and South Hill,[4][5] or Burrén and Burrena, Aragon, Spain, where two Iron Age Urnfield culture archaeological sites lie beneath the hills.[6]

The "Breasts of Aphrodite" in Mykonos, Greece.

Many of the myths surrounding these mountains are ancient and enduring and some have been recorded in the oral literature or written texts; for example, in an unspecified location in Asia, there was a mountain known as "Breast Mountain" with a cave in which the Buddhist monk Bodhidharma (Da Mo) spent a long time in meditation.[7]

Travelers and cartographers in colonial times often changed the ancestral names of such hills. The mountain known to the Indigenous Australian people as Didhol or Dithol (Woman's Breast) was renamed Pigeon House Mountain by Captain James Cook at the time of his exploration of Australia's eastern coast in 1770.[8]

Mamelon (from French "nipple") is a French name for a breast-shaped hillock.[9] Fort Mamelon was a famous hillock fortified by the Russians and captured by the French as part of the Siege of Sevastopol during the Crimean War of the 1850s. The word mamelon is also used in volcanology to describe a particular rock formation of volcanic origin. The term was coined by the French explorer and naturalist Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent.[10]

Africa

The thelarchic-shaped Naasa Hablood in Somaliland (1896)
View of one of the Trois Mamelles in Mauritius. Drawing from page 121 of Atlas by Jacques-Gérard Milbert.
African Great Lakes
Horn of Africa
Indian Ocean
Southern Africa
West Africa

Antarctica

Asia

Khao Nom Nang in Western Thailand.
Cambodia
China
Middle East
Philippines
Chocolate Hills in Bohol, Philippines
Thailand

Europe

Deganwy Castle
Paps of Anu. View of the western Pap from the eastern Pap, Ireland.
UK and Ireland
Marens Patter (literally "Maren's breasts") in Denmark.
Denmark
  • Marens Patter (Maren's Tits), a pair of twin hills that has functioned as a landmark for seafarers since the Bronze Ages.
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Iceland
Slovenia
Spain

North and Central America

Spanish Peaks, Colorado
Las Tetas de Cayey in Salinas, Puerto Rico
Canada
El Salvador
Guadeloupe
Haiti
Mexico
Nicaragua
Panamá
Puerto Rico
The Bubbles on Jordan Pond in Acadia National Park
United States

Oceania

Saddle Hill, as seen from Lookout Point, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Australia
New Zealand


South America

Argentina
Bolivia
Chile
Cerro Batoví, Tacuarembó, Uruguay.
Colombia
Cuba
French Guiana
Peru
Uruguay
Venezuela

See also

References

  1. ^ "The feminine in early Irish myth and legend". Scoilnet. Archived from the original on 11 June 2011. Retrieved 4 April 2011.
  2. ^ Mills, A.D. (2003). A Dictionary of British Place-Names. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-852758-6.
  3. ^ Hylton (2003), p. 6.
  4. ^ Samson, South Hill Chambered Cairn - The Megalithic Portal
  5. ^ Samson, North Hill - The Megalithic Portal
  6. ^ Burrén. Parque Arqueológico de la Primera Edad del Hierro en Frescano
  7. ^ "The Story of Bodhidharma". USA Shaolin Temple. Retrieved 4 April 2011.
  8. ^ "Didhol (Pigeon House Mountain)". South Coast of NSW. Morningside web publishers. Retrieved 9 October 2013.
  9. ^ Moureau, M.; Brace, G. (January 2008). Dictionnaire Du Petrole Et Autres Sources D'Energie: Anglais-Franncais, Francais-Anglais [Comprehensive Dictionary of Petroleum and Other Energy Sources]. Editions Technip. p. 936. ISBN 978-2-7108-0911-1. Retrieved 4 April 2011.
  10. ^ Decobecq, Dominique. "L'histoire du cratère Dolomieu (Piton de la Fournaise)" (in French). Retrieved 4 April 2011.
  11. ^ Jackman, Brian (16 January 2009). "Africa: taking flight over Kenya's elephant country". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 4 April 2011.
  12. ^ "Sheba's Breasts & Execution Rock". The Kingdom of Eswatini. Archived from the original on 13 June 2021. Retrieved 9 February 2022.
  13. ^ Lay, Vicheka (25 March 2005). "Cambodian Resort "Virtuous Woman's Breast" Mountain". Tales of Asia. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  14. ^ "Virac (Capital Town)". Catanduanes Local Government. 2010. Archived from the original on 9 March 2011. Retrieved 4 April 2011.
  15. ^ "Maiden's breast mountain, Occ. Mindoro (photo)". Retrieved 4 April 2011.
  16. ^ "Doi Phu Nom picture". Archived from the original on 22 February 2015. Retrieved 18 February 2012.
  17. ^ "The Legend of Khanom". Ice Family Tour. 2007. Archived from the original on 2 April 2011. Retrieved 4 April 2011.
  18. ^ "Nom Sao Island (Ko Nom Sao)". Thailand.com. Archived from the original on 22 March 2006. Retrieved 4 April 2011.
  19. ^ Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park - Activities Archived 17 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  20. ^ "Ko Nom Sao". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 2 August 2011.
  21. ^ "Chanthaburi, Laem Sing Beach". Archived from the original on 25 July 2011. Retrieved 2 August 2011.
  22. ^ "The meaning of place names in Ashfield". Ashfield District Council. Retrieved 4 April 2011.[permanent dead link]
  23. ^ "Tetica de Bacares, Sierra de los Filabres (2.080 m. altitud) (photo)". Panoramio. Archived from the original on 5 November 2012. Retrieved 4 April 2011.
  24. ^ Burrén y Burrena, las "dos teticas" con historia en Fréscano Archived 2011-04-30 at the Wayback Machine
  25. ^ "Nicaragua. Ometepe Island. Between ancient legends and biodiversity". SouthWorld. February 2017.
  26. ^ "Bubble Mountains". Hike Bubble Mountains ME. July 2010. Retrieved 2 September 2011.
  27. ^ "Pinnacle Mountain State Park". The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture. 4 February 2011. Retrieved 4 April 2011.
  28. ^ Evans, Frances P. (August 1958). "The Mystic Huajatolla". Trail and Timberline. Colorado Mountain Club: 103.
  29. ^ "Geology". Jackson Hole.com. 2011. Archived from the original on 8 February 2011. Retrieved 4 April 2011.
  30. ^ sfgov.org Archived 14 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  31. ^ "Uncanoonuc Mountains". Dan LaRochelle. Retrieved 9 April 2012.[permanent dead link]
  32. ^ "Mollies Nipple Visit Utah". www.visitutah.com. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
  33. ^ [https://peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=72413
  34. ^ Hayne, Jordan (4 April 2016). "Thousands of Indigenous heritage sites scattered across Canberra". ABC News. Retrieved 22 January 2023. [The word 'Canberra'] means cleavage – the space between a woman's breasts, that's Black Mountain and Mount Ainslie, and a very very important area for our people, indeed a corroboree ground for our people, right where the National Museum of Australia is today.
  35. ^ Cerro Tres Tetas - Argentina
  36. ^ "Cerro Batoví" (in Spanish). Enciclopedia Geográfica del Uruguay. Retrieved 4 April 2011.
  37. ^ "Teta de Niquitao" (in Spanish). Cúspides Venezuela. 2008. Archived from the original on 19 March 2017. Retrieved 4 April 2011.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Breast-shaped_hill&oldid=1156841477"