zforbes
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Tres Virgenes
I've been curious to know more about who the three virgins were/are. Can anyone tell me more about how the name came about?
[Edited on 2-1-2007 by zforbes]
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David K
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It's a great question... and I cannot find an answer (yet)!
I checked several of my books and the Internet...
Here is a 360 degree pan cam of the volcano: http://virtualguidebooks.com/Baja/BajaSur/EastOfSanIgnacio/V...
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Thanks, David
I tried googling the answer, but no luck. I'm sure someone knows...but if not you...WHO?
Zoe
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| Quote: | Originally posted by zforbes
I tried googling the answer, but no luck. I'm sure someone knows...but if not you...WHO?
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Volcanic complex near BCN/BCS border
http://www.geofisica.unam.mx/vulcanologia/volcanes/tresvirge...
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Sounds like a Christian/mission derived name(Virgin Mary, Virgin of Guadalupe).
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Yeah, now that accounts for two but not the third one.
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I have received an email back from the author of Baja Legends, Greg Niemann... Unfortunately, he never discovered the origin of the name.
Probably Spanish explorers in the gulf who saw three volcanic peaks, and they wanted to find a land full of virgins!
[Edited on 2-3-2007 by David K]
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I like the old padres story
and I wonder who those three special virgins were. Are there any other folk and/or religious references to three virgins?
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I think Spanish explorers/sailors put map names on the things they saw from ships (like Calafia, the mountain ridge above Loreto that looks like a
women in repose). I'll do some research but it looks like the first to see the area from ships would be Ulloa, Ximenez or Alarcon --- Alarcon was
the first guy who went up to the Colorado delta and he's the likely suspect.
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Hmmm cool question, I'll send off an e-mail to my Wifes uncle, Hes written quite a few great books on the cave paintings and history of Baja. I
imagine if anybody knows then Harry would know, or at least point me in the right direction. I think hes coming out with a new book soon or maybe its
already out...
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| Quote: | | Originally posted by Don Jorge And these three virgins were named, the first was Dread which drew Thaisis from evil, and the second Shame of
the sins that she committed, and that made her to deserve pardon, and the third was Love of Righteousness, which brought her to high sovereign place.
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Where did you find this? It sounds like a great story with more to it.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Pompano
The name of Tres Virgenes (three virgins) is due to the fact that its three peaks have formed a remote, hardly-
explored, harsh area that is practically virgin, and where nature follows its course as it has done for the past 250,000 years.
And that is as much as I could research right now, because I have an appointment with a hammock. |
Aha...a much different take on the word virgin...and what will you be dreaming of during your siesta?
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Sisters
Three ugly sisters or was it 2 sisters an there cousin???
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