MUNTELE TEASC. DESPRE SANCTUARE ÎN NATURĂ (I)
THE TEASC MOUNTAIN. ON SANCTUARIES IN THE LANDSCAPE (I)

Summary/Abstract: In this article we present the result of three years of research (2005, 2009 and 2010) on the Tease Mountain, located close to Borsec in the Harghita County, eastern Transylvania. Tease Mountain with a flattened top, favourable for alpine pasture, makes connection to Moldova by paths In the same time, it is a very good place for oversee the surroundings, therefor we believe it was used by Paleolithic communities to follow the wild animal herd for hunting. The area is well known even before the First World War, when several stones with signs and symbols related to Szcklcrs origin were discovered. Some stones have been moved from their initial places to the Gheorghieni Museum. Earlier Şl. Kovâcs (1914) and G. Bako(1962) made the analyses of these stones. We have investigated the mountain by ethno-archeological methods (folds, abodes, streams); with this occasion areas with opal as raw material, different artefacts related with Prehistory or later, as well as 43 stones with signs and symbols have been discovered. The stones have been put on the map with a GPS (fig. 1), starting from the sketch made by Şt. Kovâcs. We made different photos and drawings for the signs and symbols, or some correction for those already published. Many signs and symbols discovered on the stones located in the Tease Mountain present analogies with similar representations of Neolithic, Copper Age (displayed by Danubian Script especially on cult objects) or later ones. Some of signs and symbols have too analogies with the Paleolithic representations (A. Leroi-Gourhan) or they show astral constellations. Mountain is a sacred place in many civilizations. In our opinion the stones with signs and symbols discovered on the Tease Mountain might indicate the place of a prehistoric sanctuary.

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