Different Brest Shapes With Pictures

Hill shaped like a human breast

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 to be 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 [edit]

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]

Mostly breast-shaped hills are 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]

Also 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 as "Didhol" or "Dithol", Woman's Breast by the Indigenous Australian people, was rechristened Pigeon House Mountain by Captain James Cook at the time of his exploration of Australia's eastern coast in 1770.^{[ citation needed ]}

"Mamelon" (from French "nipple") is a French name for a breast-shaped hillock.^[8] 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.^[9]

Africa [edit]

African Great Lakes

Mount Elgon on the Uganda-Kenya border
Sweet Sixteen, Matthews Range (Ldoinyo Lenkiyio), Laikipia district, Rift Valley Province, northern Kenya.^[10]

Horn of Africa

Naasa Hablood in Somaliland

Indian Ocean

Trois Mamelles mountains in the west of Mauritius
Mamelles Island, Seychelles

Southern Africa

Omatako Mountain south-west of Otjiwarongo in Namibia
Three Sisters in the Northern Cape, South Africa

West Africa

Deux Mamelles, Pointe des Almadies, Cap-Vert, Senegal

Antarctica [edit]

Una Peaks, long known as Una's Tits colloquially, at the entrance to the Lemaire Channel, Graham Land
Nipple Peak, Palmer Archipelago, Graham Land
Hemus Peak, Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands

Asia [edit]

Cambodia

Sroh-Plom Mountain, "Virtuous Woman's Breast Mountain", located close to Senmonorom, Senmonorom District, Mondulkiri Province, Cambodia.^[11]

China

Dazeshan Mountain in Shandong Province

Wuyi Mountain in Fujian Province

Twin Breasts Peak in Tianzhu Mountain in Anhui Province

Qianling Mausoleum near Xian, their shape is man-made

Two Breast Peaks of Zhenfeng are two mountains in the Guizhou Province

Rushan (meaning "Breast Mountain") is a mountain in Weihai, Shandong Province, China.

Middle East

Tell Sader al-Arus (translation from Arabic: "Breast of the bride") is a mountain in the Golan Heights.

Philippines

Chocolate Hills, more than a thousand unusual geological formations in Bohol. A popular tourist destination named for their brown colour in the summer.
Ilihan Hill, "Watery Breast", a pilgrimage site about four kilometres from Jagna, Bohol
Kagmasuso, among other breast-shaped hills in San Andrés, Catanduanes^[12]
Mount Susong Dalaga (literally "Maiden's Breasts Mountain") is the name of several peaks in the Philippines, including:

Mount Susong Dalaga, Abra de Ilog, Occidental Mindoro^[13]
Mount Susong Dalaga (also known as Breast Peak) in Tampakan, South Cotabato
Susong Dalaga Peak of Mount Batolusong, Tanay, Rizal
Manabu Peak (also known as Mount Dalaga or Mount Susong Dalaga) of the Malepunyo Mountain Range in between the provinces of Batangas, Laguna, and Quezon
Mt. Tagapo (also known as Mount Susong Dalaga), Talim Island, two huge conical hills that are the highest peaks of Talim Island.

Musuan Peak, an active volcano in Maramag, Bukidnon

Thailand

Doi Phu Nom (ดอยภูนม), Phayao Province, a breast-shaped hill rising in an area of grassland of the Phi Pan Nam Range.^[14]
Khao Nom (เขานม), was one of the former names of Khanom, a district of Nakhon Si Thammarat Province, due to the surrounding mountains.^[15]
Khao Nom Nang, a hill at Huai Krachao, Kanchanaburi. 14°18′00″N 99°43′00″E / 14.30000°N 99.71667°E / 14.30000; 99.71667
Khao Nom Nang, (เขานมนาง), a hill north of Pak Phraek, Kanchanaburi. 14°05′00″N 99°34′00″E / 14.08333°N 99.56667°E / 14.08333; 99.56667
Khao Nom Nang, a hill between Nong Pet and Chong Sadao, Kanchanaburi. 14°21′02″N 99°12′53″E / 14.35056°N 99.21472°E / 14.35056; 99.21472
Khao Nom Nang, an isolated hill in Khok Samae San, Lopburi. 15°19′00″N 100°51′00″E / 15.31667°N 100.85000°E / 15.31667; 100.85000
Khao Nom Nang, an isolated large hill in Khao Kala, Nakhon Sawan Province. 15°34′00″N 100°17′00″E / 15.56667°N 100.28333°E / 15.56667; 100.28333
Khao Nom Nang, the name of two hills west of Doeng Bang Nam Buat, Suphan Buri. 14°51′00″N 100°04′00″E / 14.85000°N 100.06667°E / 14.85000; 100.06667
Khao Nom Sao (เขานมสาว), "female breast mountain", a mountain located in Ranong Province, Thailand.
Khao Nom Sao, a round hill east of Phet Kasem road in Prachuap Khiri Khan Province. 10°59′00″N 99°22′00″E / 10.98333°N 99.36667°E / 10.98333; 99.36667
Khao Nom Sao, a mountain in Chumphon Province. 09°46′00″N 98°43′01″E / 9.76667°N 98.71694°E / 9.76667; 98.71694
Khao Nom Sao, a hill in Phang Nga Province, part of a greater mountain system. 08°58′00″N 98°28′00″E / 8.96667°N 98.46667°E / 8.96667; 98.46667
Khao Nom Wang (เขานมวังก), a small hill just east of the main road at Phanom Wang, Khuan Khanun District, also known as Khao Phanom Wang, Phatthalung Province. 07°40′58″N 100°01′01″E / 7.68278°N 100.01694°E / 7.68278; 100.01694
Ko Nom Sao (Thai: เกาะนมสาว, lit. female breast island) are twin islands located in the Phang Nga Bay,^[16] Phang Nga Province, Thailand.
Ko Nom Sao in Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park, Prachuap Khiri Khan Province.^[17] 12°13′N 100°01′E / 12.217°N 100.017°E / 12.217; 100.017
Ko Nom Sao, an island off the shore in Chanthaburi Province.^[18] ^[19] 12°28′N 102°01′E / 12.467°N 102.017°E / 12.467; 102.017

Europe [edit]

UK and Ireland

Mumbles, the two islands (on one of which stands a lighthouse) off the southeast corner of the Gower peninsula, Swansea, Wales
Beinn Chìochan in the Grampians, Scotland
Bennachie in Aberdeenshire, Scotland
North Berwick Law In East Lothian, Scotland
Mam Barisdale in Knoydart, Scotland
Mynydd Llanwenarth near Abergavenny, Wales
Mount Keen in Aberdeenshire / Angus, Scotland
A' Chioch in Ben More, Isle of Mull, Scotland
Mam Sodhail, on the northern side of Glen Affric, some 30 kilometres east of Kyle of Lochalsh
Mam Tor, near Castleton in the High Peak of Derbyshire, England.^[20]
Samson, Isles of Scilly
Twmbarlwm near Risca, Wales
Wittenham Clumps in Oxfordshire
Shutlingsloe, Cheshire

Paps or Maiden Paps are rounded, breastlike hills located mostly in Scotland:
- Paps of Anu, near Killarney, Ireland
- Paps of Fife in Scotland
- Paps of Jura, on the western side of the island of Jura, in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland
- Paps of Lothian in Scotland
- Maiden Paps, twin hills in Caithness, Scotland
- Maiden Paps, twin hills in the Kilpatrick Hills, Scotland
- Maiden Paps, twin hills south of Hawick in the Scottish Borders, Scotland
- Maiden Paps, another name for the Tunstall Hills near Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England
- Maiden's Pap, another name for Schiehallion, Perth and Kinross, Scotland
- Pap of Glencoe in the Scottish Highlands

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

Lilienstein in Saxon Switzerland, Germany

Greece

Breasts of Aphrodite in Mykonos, Greece

Iceland

Vatnsdalshólar

Spain

Tetica de Bacares or "La Tetica", a 2,086 m (6,488 ft) high mountain in the Sierra de Los Filabres, Spain.^[21]
Tetas de Liérganes, Cantabria
Tetas de Viana, La Alcarria, Guadalajara Province
Puig de Mamelles, Felanitx, Mallorca
Ses Mamelles, another name for the 714 m (2343 ft) high Puig des Castellot, Escorca, Mallorca
Turó de la Mamella, a mountain near Vacarisses, Catalonia
Burrén and Burrena^[22] near Fréscano, Aragon

North and Central America [edit]

Canada

Anû Kathâ Îpa in the Canadian Rockies of Alberta

El Salvador

San Vicente, also known as Chichontepec, the mountain of the two breasts in Nahuat, a stratovolcano in El Salvador

Guadeloupe

Mamelles, Guadeloupe

Haiti

Morne Deux Mamelles, Haiti

Mexico

Las Tetas de Juana, San Pedro Municipality, Coahuila
Tres Tetas Mountain or El Chichión in Costa Grande of Guerrero

Nicaragua

Ometepe, in Lake Nicaragua. Legend says that the island's volcanoes Maderas and Concepción formed from the breasts of Ometepetl, a daughter of the Niquirano tribe.^[23]

Panamá

Cerro La Teta in Las Guabas

Puerto Rico

Cerro Las Tetas in Salinas, Puerto Rico
Tetas de Cerro Gordo in San Germán, Puerto Rico

United States

Bubble Mountains, in Acadia National Park of Maine.^[24]
Nippletop, in the Adirondack High Peaks of New York. During the later 19th century, it was euphemistically renamed "Dial Mountain", a name now officially applied to another nearby peak.
Pilot Mountain, Pilot Mountain, North Carolina. Referenced many times on the Andy Griffith Show as Mt. Pilot. Andy spoke about a wonderful place to travel called "Pilot" by the locals.
Pinnacle Mountain, Arkansas, near Maumelle. During the colonial and early American periods, the mountain was known as "Mamelle" mountain. "Mamelle" is a name commonly applied in the French-speaking parts of the world to a breast.^[25]
Rock Mary, Caddo County, Oklahoma
Spanish Peaks, Colorado, named Huajatolla by the Ute Indians, meaning "two breasts".^[26]
Tetilla Peak, Caja del Rio, New Mexico. "Tetilla" is Spanish for "nipple".
Teton Range. French-Canadian trappers named the Grand Teton Mountains around 1820. The distinctive peaks appeared as Les Trois Tétons (The Three Breasts) seen from the north^[27]
- Grand Teton
- Middle Teton
- South Teton
Twin Peaks, in San Francisco, California. When the Spanish conquistadors and settlers arrived at the beginning of the 18th century, they called the area "Los Pechos de la Chola" or "Breasts of the Indian Maiden" and devoted the area to ranching.^[28] When San Francisco passed under American control during the 19th Century, it was renamed "Twin Peaks".
Maggie's Peaks, just west of Lake Tahoe, California.
Uncanoonuc Mountains, Goffstown, New Hampshire. From a Native American word for a woman's breasts.^[29]
Mollie's Nipple or Molly's Nipple is the name given to as many as seven peaks and some other geological features in Utah.^[30]
Squawteat Peak located in Pecos County, Texas west of Bakersfield.^[31]
Betsy Bell and Mary Gray, two adjacent hills in Staunton, Virginia.

Oceania [edit]

Australia

Pigeon House Mountain, New South Wales, Australia
Mammaloid Hills, Victoria, Australia

New Zealand

Saddle Hill, Dunedin, New Zealand
Harbour Cone, Dunedin, New Zealand

South America [edit]

Argentina

Cerro Tres Tetas, in Santa Cruz^[32]
Cerro Teta in Neuquén.
Ñuñorco Grande, in Tucumán.
Los Nonos, in Nono, Córdoba.

Bolivia

Cerro Tres Tetas in Potosí, Bolivia

Chile

Sierra Teta, Futaleufú, Chile
Tetas del Biobío, formed by Cerro Teta Norte and Cerro Teta Sur, located in the mouth of the Biobío River, Chile.

Colombia

Cerro La Teta, La Guajira
Morro La Teta, El Carmen de Viboral, Antioquia
Pico Tetari, Serranía del Perijá, La Guajira

Cuba

Tetas de Santa Teresa, Baracoa, Cuba

French Guiana

Les Mamelles Islets, French Guiana

Peru

Cerro Tetas, Chiclayo Province, Peru

Uruguay

Cerro Batoví, in Tacuarembó. Batoví means breast of a virgin in the Guaraní language.^[33]
Cerro Pan de Azúcar (Sugarloaf Hill), in the Maldonado Department

Venezuela

Tetas de María Guevara, Isla Margarita, Venezuela
Teta de Niquitao, Trujillo State, Venezuela^[34]
Cerro de Las Tetas, Tinaquillo, Cojedes, Venezuela
Cerro las Tres Tetas, Barquisimeto, Venezuela

Gallery [edit]

Cerro Las Tetas, Salinas, Puerto Rico, as seen from the PR-52 northbound rest area at km 49.0

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External links [edit]

Stuart McHardy, The Goddess in the Landscape of Scotland
The Gododdin triangle by Philip Coppens
Yakima Herald-Republic - State Changes Name of Hill (Squaw Tit) to Pushtay
Mark Monmonier, From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow: How Maps Name, Claim, and Inflame

Different Brest Shapes With Pictures

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breast-shaped_hill

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