"Huesca"
legend
about Lost Mount massif
Fantastic Pyrenees are favorable to
the legends, and the impressive massif of Monte Perdido (Lost
Mount), is not unaware to them. On the origin of the three summits
that integrate there arelegends, related in different ways, although
coincide in the protagonism of three women. One of those legends,
counts it by this way:
the century V runs, and the Visigothic
commander Eurico has razed a town of Pyrinees; three sisters orphans
by mother, that will marry that day, have hidden while her father
and her boyfriends have been prisoners. When they return to the town,
see desolation, death and a Visigothic wounded to who they cure with
the promise of the prisoners' liberation. Taken to the camp, they
are received cordially but, lapsed the days they remind to the soldier
their commitment who tells them that their boyfriends, previous faith
adjuration have married wirh three Goths and that now they are in
mission of Eurico. When passing of the time, shrunk the pain, a youth
marries with the saved youth man and the other ones with both warriors.
The night of weddings are appeared the father's spectrum and the youths
escape from the camp settling of penitents in three barrack to backs
of Lost Mount.
The three prisoners are hung while
a terrible avalanche of snow buries the shacks of three unhappy women
and an awful earthquake rises, on that place they occupy, three somber
mounts: Three Sorores, like memory of that triple apostasy
and in answer to a curse.
Ramón J. Sender, offers us another
story in that contrary to other Sorores, here is not punishment
to the spiritual infidelity, but a prize to the solidity of the Christian
faith. In an old monastery of Saint Bernard nuns, in the valley of
Bielsa, some surrendered to the sexual biggest licentiousness
(promoted by the chaplain of the convent and three noblemen) to exception
of three Sorores: Clara, Ana and Pilar.
Of everything, gives reason a file found in the Simancas Archive,
in which are reflected the events according which saw the king's visitor
Felipe II, called Gómez Laín. R. J. Sender gave a faithful
transcription, for what we know that, next to the parish priest, the
chaplain and the three implied in the orgies (Teófilo of Ter,
Domingo of Santa Lucía and Juan of Villacampa),
were the superior of the convent (Sister Águeda of the Five
Wounds), Sister Marta of Three Cruces, Sister Cristobalina
of Vendòme and Sister Juana María of the Apocalypse
(both French), Sister Fernanda of Santa Cruz, Sister
Melancia of Santa María Magdalena, Sister Cecilia
Ramona Nonata (of Segovia), Sister Josefa del Monte
Olivet, Sister Nicolasa of Ecce Homo and Flavia
and Artemia. The three faithful nuns had tragic final: Sister
Ana hung; Sister Clara was murdered and Sister Pilar
died shut up, of hunger and terror. Their bodies would be buried in
the Monasterio de las Huelgas of Burgos and the memory of their
purity and martyrdom, is in those three masses, with their snowy picks.
Geographically Monte Perdido is the
calcareous massif more high of Europe. Its higher pick is the Lost
Mount with an altitude of 3.355 meters on the sea level. It is located
to the North of the county of Huesca, in the National Park
of Ordesa and Lost Mount inside the south slope of the western
Pyrenees, in the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain
The massif of Lost Mount, known by
Three Sorores or Treserols, compose it the Picks of Lost Mount (3.355
m), Cylinder (3.328 m), and Añisclo (3.263 m) also called,
this last one, Soum of Ramond, dedicated to Louis Ramond of Carbonnières,
the first that ascended and counted it. In this sector they are 22
summits of more than 3.000 m.
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The National Park of Ordesa and Lost
Mount, is constituted by 4 valleys of extraordinary beauty: Ordesa
to the Southwest, Añisclo to the South, Escuaín to the
Southeast and Pineta to the East. A part of the massif goes
into to the North in French territory, being part of Parc National
des Pyrénées, highlighting the Valley and Circus of Gavarnie,
impressive glacier circus that has the highest cascade in Europe in
their head, with more than 400 meters of vertical fall.
Mount Lost is the pick of the left and
the right is the Cylinder (see from the north). In the north face
of the Lost Mount is one of the few glaciers that continue existing
in Pyrenees, although in slow but continuous setback. It is about
a "tongue" with a lot of slope that has a front of about
750 meters and goes from the 2.700 to the 3.250 meters high.
Among the mountaineer, Lost Mount enjoys
a great popularity because it is a tres mil (three thounsands)
relatively easy of attacking. The normal road of ascent is made through
the refuge of Góriz (2.200 m), where it is habitual to spend
the night, and the channel of escupidera ("the spittoon"),
one of the black points of Pyrenees where have been perished of accident
many climbers trying to reach the summit. This massif is included
inside the Reservation of the biosphere Ordesa-Viñamala declared
by Unesco in 1997.
Soum of Ramond, call Pico de Añisclo
also, is a pick of 3.263 m of height of the massif of Lost Mount,
inside the Spanish part of the mountain range of Pyrenees and that
is located among the valleys of Ordesa, Añisclo and Pineta,
in the National Park of Ordesa and Lost Mount. Inside the massif
of Lost Mount, the biggest three summits are known as Three Sorores
or Three Serols, of those that Soum of Ramond (3.263 m) is
the more Southeasternl and follows the own Lost Mount (3.355 m) and
the Pick Cylinder (3.328 m). The name Soum of Ramond is in honor to
the mountaineer that first stepped the summit of the Lost Mount, Louis
Ramond of Carbonnières, and that of Pick Añisclo is due to that its
south slope dominates the impressive Canyon of Añisclo.
The pick Cylinder, called Cylinder
of Marboré also, is a pick of 3.328 m of height of the massif of Lost
Mount, inside the mountain range of Pyrenees and that is located entirely
in Spain (Valley of Ordesa), but very near the frontier with
France (Circus of Gavarnie) with the that limits the Pick Marboré,
being included in the National Spanish Park of Ordesa and Lost
Mount and near to the National Park of Pyrenees.
Its name is due to the impressive North
face, a vertical rounded wall with a form that remembers to a geometric
cylinder and its nickname is due to that the same North face dominates
the circus glacier of Marboré, where there is the Ibón
of Marboré (mountain lake).
Another
legend about "Three Sorores"
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