winter and summer, and later spent a thousand days and nights in the feat of pilgrimage on the stone moon told my sisters that when i die come to my coffin, and as if alive, tell me everything, and i will always help you next to you, but whoever refuses such help among the shrines of the monastery, a special place is occupied by the groove of the mother of god, it is believed that the mother of god herself chose a place for her. and she appeared to father seraphim and ordered that the monastery be surrounded by a ditch and a rampart. we have now come to a wide entrance to the territory of the groove. this is the beginning of the groove, and this is its end. if you follow the groove , you will walk the path that at one time went, the queen of heaven, taking this land for herself. in the inheritance of the groove is an earthen ditch. three arshins deep, that is, 2 m 10 cm and a length of 777 m. the trajectory of the groove, curved like an unfinished heptagon, it is believed that every day the mother of god herself goes around this groove . people walk along the groove, they move very slowly

recommended for ordinary people to stay nearby for a long time; these stones are surrounded by many sacred secrets. one of them is how the huge moonsnded up on top of the mountain. who put them here themselves, they believed that the mountain, here the goods are the way out to another world, the souls of the shamans guarding this place were imprisoned, allegedly. there inside monolith blocks. there is a place where a non-corporeal spirit can dwell, and this is evidenced by the sound of emptiness that this huge wolf makes. oh heard, she really heard a dull sound. that is, you feel. yes, there is deafness in the stone, as if it is hollow inside, this was the sacrament. yes, these cult such ceremonial stones that they emit the sound of emptiness, the sound of nothing from the top of the stone. we saw another amazing picture in the center of the mountain. a huge ancient sanctuary of the mountain appeared before our eyes, like a huge a stone pedestal cuts into a multi-meter altar. previously, the entire space around it was occupied by a lake, up to this amphitheater , it is believed that spectators who saw off sat on these stones. here

this grandiose building of massive stone blocks, as archaeologists suggest, was built around the seventh century. bc and worshiped the moongh of course, today no one can say exactly what happened here at that time, it is already clear that the entrance was decorated with columns and richly decorated, but no description of the rituals. it is not even known who passed in these places. whether the doors of the temple of the moon were always open and or only on the occasion of special celebrations, whether everyone was allowed to enter it or only the chosen ones. sarah says that even the dating of the construction of the temple is controversial. as we imagine this ancient soviet temple, built naturally with obeisits that arrived in ethiopia from south arabia between the ninth and eighth centuries bc, this temple is quite comparable with the soviet temples on the arabian peninsula, which were built in the middle of the seventh century bc, most likely, worshiped here, alma-ata with the biysk god of the moon throughout its history. this place was considered sacred. and now there is a christian church nearby. large excavations wo