Monte Vettore

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Monte Vettore
Southwest ridge
Highest point
Elevation2,476 m (8,123 ft)
Prominence1,463 m (4,800 ft) Edit this on Wikidata
Isolation41.56 km (25.82 mi) Edit this on Wikidata
Coordinates42°49′N 13°16′E / 42.817°N 13.267°E / 42.817; 13.267
Geography
Monte Vettore is located in Italy
Monte Vettore
Monte Vettore
Location in Italy
LocationItaly
Parent rangeApennines
Climbing
Easiest routeHike

Monte Vettore (from Latin Vector, "carrier", "leader") is a

Sibillini massif
. It is located in Ascoli piceno, Marche, Italy.

Geography

The southwestern side of Sibillini massif, including the Vettore peak, is in

Sibillini Mountains National Park. Below the summit of Vettore lies a small glacial lake in a small enclosed valley between Redeemer Peak.[1]

History

Apennine Sibyl by Adolfo de Carolis.

The local medieval tradition was that the Apennine Sibyl, a mysterious prophetess not counted among the

Mother of God
, but that some humble Judaean virgin had been favored. The peak of Monte Vettore, surrounded by reddish cliffs was recognized as the crown of Regina Sibilla.

Monte Vettore summit view with Maile

Less stringently Christian legend set her in an underworld paradise entered through a grotto in the mountains of Norcia. Nearby the magical lake is fed by water from the cavern. Whoever stayed longer than a year could no longer leave, but remained deathless and ageless, feasting in abundance, amid revelry and voluptuous delights.

In popular culture

In

speaking serpent. She shows him the delights and horrors of her cavern, where sinners have been changed to the appropriate animals, but where sin is the only path to the knowledge of his real parents that he seeks, and Guerrin has to flee.[2]

The long informative captions in the maps of

Ortelius
' 16th-century atlas, Cartographia Neerlandica, offer some detail about this Apennine Sybil:

The Mountain Apennine here looms over the country with exceedingly high cragged tops, in which one finds that huge cave called Sibylla's cave, (in their language Grotta della Sibylla) and which the poets would have the Elysian Fields. For the common people dream about a certain Sibylla [supposed] to be in this cave, who [is claimed to] possess a large kingdom full of gorgeous buildings and Princely palaces, covered with pleasant gardens, abounding with many fine lecherous wenches and all kinds of pleasures and delights. All of these she will bestow on those who through this cave (which is always open) will come to her. And after they have been there for the period of one whole year, they have the freedom and liberty given to them by Sibylla to depart (if they please) and from that moment, having returned to us, they state that they live a most blessed and happy life ever after. This cave is also known to our countrymen by the name of VROU VENUS BERGH, that is, The Lady Venus mount.[3]

Locally the Sibilla was in some sense a beneficent

Weaving (mythology) for other European weaving goddesses), and perhaps to dance the saltarello with the best of the young men. But if they were not back in their mountain fastness by sunrise, they would be denied access and would become mere mortals. On one occasion, what with dancing and pleasure, the faterelle had not noticed the approach of dawn. Scrambling up the Vettore, their goatlike feet crushed the rock to fragments. They reached the safety of their grotto just before dawn, but the long slope of talus
is still pointed out as the Path of the Fata.

See also
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Notes

  1. ^ [htqtp://utenti.lycos.it/umbriadascoprire/castelluccio.htm Umbria :Castelluccio di Norcia].
  2. ^ Abstract
  3. ^ Compare the legend of the Venusberg.

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