Two other important Thracian megalithic sanctuaries have been discovered near the rock city of Perperikon. On of them is the temple of the Great Goddess-Mother, located high in the mountains. This is natural horizontal cave, 22 m long, with south-north orientation, additionally shaped by the human tools. The cave was cut in the shape of a gigantic womb. A semicircular altar niche that represents the symbolic uterus is cut from the north. A crecive is specially cut into the ceiling, through which a sun ray penetrates precisely at noon. It is projected on the floor as an enormous light Phallus, and is directed towards te altar-uterus. It reaches there only in January – February, when the Sun is the lowest, and engages in a symbolic intercourse with the Great Goddess-Mother. In this way, the solar deity fertilises the Earth, and the Nature is reborn. According to the Thracian religious doctrine, there rituals were believed to have been performed by the king-priest, son of the Great Goddess-Mother. He had to climb high in the mountain and engage in a symbolic marriage with his mother in the cave-womb. Precisely that rite was performed in the remote past in the cave near Kurdjali. Another unique sanctuary was discovered near the village of Tatul

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, again in the Eastern Rhodope Mountains. It is a rock massif, again deified during the Chalcolithic Age, whose tip was processed with chisels during the Late Bronze Age and was transformed into a prominent megalithic monument. A deep stone sarcophagus is hewn in the highest place. A hypothesis is expressed that this was the real or symbolic grave of the legendary singer and principal Thracian hero Orpheus Hope Floats ipod The Sum of All Fears movie download . It is substantiated by preserved historical evidence about a unique burial custom of the kings in the Rhodope Mountains that differed radically from the tumular tombs of the dynasts in the plains. They were placed in the caves or on the top of cliffs so as to serve as mediators between the gods and the people. In addition to Orpheus, this is how King Rhesos, who perished in the Trojan War by the hand of Odysseus, was also buried.

The megalithic monument near the village of Tatul proved to be the centre if a heroon – a sanctuary of a deceased and deified Thracian King. Over the centuries, it grew and functioned until the end of the pagan period. A magnificent temple was built next to the megalithic monuments in the 4th – 3rd century BC, which would have made any ancient Greek city proud. And this is already another historical period that Thracian society embarked upon.

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