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Indians chose the name Huajatolla (pronounced Wa-ha-toy-a) which means two breasts because of the formation. The Indians believed "all living things on earth, mankind, beasts and plants, derive their sustenance from that source. The clouds are born there, and without clouds there is no rain and when no rain falls, we have no food, and without food--we must perish all."

The Spanish who came later called them "the breasts of the world." To others they are simply Spanish Peaks. The double mountain is geographically unique in America because it is independent of any mountain range., A dozen dykes or walls branch mysteriously out from the base of the Peaks. Legend says they are the breastworks of giants. There were remains on a mountain ledge of a crude little sun temple. The Huajatolla were worshipped as a thing of eternity and infinity, and the past.

Huerfano Butte, on the other hand, was respected for the present as the landmark of early explorers, long before anyone found Pikes Peak. It, too, stood alone. Jack Lacy wrote of the Butte in 1938:

Reports of "El Huerfano" may be read in Spanish annals, and in the writings of early American explorers. El Huerfano stands naked in the lower valley of the Huerfano river--an odd, cone-shaped mountain that is a reminder of a period when the earth was writhing in the throes of volcanic convulsions. It stands alone, far removed from other hills or peaks, therefore an "orphan"--in Spanish, "Huerfano."