Breast-shaped hill

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A breast-shaped hill in Western Sahara Breast-Shaped Hill.jpg
A breast-shaped hill in Western Sahara
There is an ancient Iberian archaeological site beneath the Mola Murada, one of the mountains of the Moles de Xert, Spain. Moles-xert29.JPG
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]

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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. Jean-Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent - Voyage dans les quatre principales iles des mers d'Afrique - Planches.djvu
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 a Celtic language name 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. Hills on Mykonos.jpg
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) Virgins Breast Mountain (3948855428).jpg
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-Gerard Milbert. MILBERT(1812) p121 - Ile-de-France, Vue d'un cete des Trois Mamelles.jpg
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

Jabal al-Nahdain in Sana'a, Yemen Jabal Al-nahdain.jpg
Jabal al-Nahdain in Sana’a, Yemen

Southern Africa

West Africa

Antarctica

Asia

Khao Nom Nang in Western Thailand. Khao Nom Nang-Erawan NP41.JPG
Khao Nom Nang in Western Thailand.

Cambodia

China

Malaysia

Middle East

Philippines

Chocolate Hills in Bohol, Philippines Bohol Hills, Chocolate Hills 3, Philippines.jpg
Chocolate Hills in Bohol, Philippines

Thailand

Europe

Deganwy Castle Castell Degannwy Deganwy Castle Sir Ddinbych Wales 09.JPG
Deganwy Castle
Paps of Anu. View of the western Pap from the eastern Pap, Ireland. The western Pap from the eastern Pap - geograph.org.uk - 332014.jpg
Paps of Anu. View of the western Pap from the eastern Pap, Ireland.

UK and Ireland

Marens Patter (literally "Maren's breasts") in Denmark. Marens Patter.jpg
Marens Patter (literally "Maren's breasts") in Denmark.

Denmark

Germany

Greece

Hungary

Iceland

Slovenia

Spain

North and Central America

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Spanish Peaks, Colorado
Las Tetas de Cayey in Salinas, Puerto Rico LasTetas 122606.jpg
Las Tetas de Cayey in Salinas, Puerto Rico

Canada

El Salvador

Guadeloupe

Haiti

Mexico

Nicaragua

Panama

Puerto Rico

The Bubbles on Jordan Pond in Acadia National Park "The Bubbles" at Acadia National Park, ME IMG 2475.JPG
The Bubbles on Jordan Pond in Acadia National Park

United States

Oceania

Saddle Hill, as seen from Lookout Point, Dunedin, New Zealand. Saddlehill-nz.jpg
Saddle Hill, as seen from Lookout Point, Dunedin, New Zealand.

Australia

New Zealand

South America

Argentina

Bolivia

Chile

Cerro Batovi, Tacuarembo, Uruguay. CerroBatovi.jpg
Cerro Batoví, Tacuarembó, Uruguay.

Colombia

Cuba

French Guiana

Peru

Uruguay

Venezuela

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