SACRED SITES IN BULGARIA
The Lines of the Dragon

Are the corridors of time, the parallel spaces and worlds a reality or fiction? The invisible energy lines have quite effective influence at the points of their intersection.
Looking at the starry sky we could hardly imagine that up there exists some kind of order. The explorers of the far worlds, the astronomers, have reached the conclusion that the disposition of the galaxies in the space is by no means chaotically, but rather representing a well designed hive, made up of queer cells. In every cell we can see a concentration of stars and galaxies. The space can be compared to a giant internet with a rushing ocean of information. Billions of providers - galaxies, stars, and planets – constantly exchange information, disseminating it by means of photon, quantum, and lepton fluxes. In case you are not fond of such cybernetic description of the space, we may suggest a different one. 
Let us recall the acupuncture. Imagine there exists a giant space body comprising an infinite number of planets, stars, and galaxies. These form up the system of the acupuncture points of the universe. Energy, power and information flow in the space system of the lines–channels connecting them. Thus, just like in the human body, within the body of our planet, the Earth, there is a system of invisible but functioning information energy channels or power lines. Some people call this system Hartmann grid. At the intersection points of the lines or channels, which may be compared to the acupuncture points of the Earth, there is an increased radioactive ground, magnetic abnormalities, electronic problems, errors in the measuring devices. Sometimes there occur aberrations in the genetic programs of the animals, increased growth of the flora, mutations, and unusual natural phenomena.  
These areas were exploited by the ancient people.
These locations on the Earth became religious and cult sites, sites where temples, pyramids, and later on churches were built. These lines were called “the lines of the Dragon” in the ancient history of China. It is curious that they were given the same name by the Celts and the Indians. Special rituals took place where “the lines of the Dragon” intersected. Usually they were related to astronomical events, such as equinox, solstice, full moon, solar and lunar eclipse. These were the sites where the priests communicated with the gods, the hermits and those consecrated got enlightenment and heavenly revelations, the prophets envisaged future events, the shamans fell into trance. Some of these sites were used for the healing of sick people. There exists a proof for these processes.
A natural source, such as a hill, a rock, or a tree, serves as an acupuncture needle in these areas. Something man-made, such as a temple, a building, can also provide for the processes. An individual might also affect them. At these sites the person stands as a bridge between the two worlds – the Space and the Earth. His physical and psychological parameters substantially change. The following symptoms may be felt – increase or decrease of the body temperature, arrhythmia, pulse change, sudden cold or hot feeling, fever. Some people feel inexplicable anxiety, fear, and panic. The people’s mood might be changed also positively and they might feel profound relief or enthusiasm. After visiting such places the more sensitive people experience strange dreams, discover new or dormant talents, prophetical or healing faculties. Almost all people change their view of life and attitude to living. It depends on the individual but nobody remains unchanged after being at a site where “the lines of the Dragon” intersect. It is very important what the person expects to feel and how he really feels at the site. He has to follow two unwritten rules – have his heart and soul open, and be obsessed by kind thoughts.
                   
M A D A R A
  

There are few most powerfull sacred sites in Bulgaria. First it is Madara   a unique centre of special fine energy. A tour to the past times proves that our land is predestined to be the nurse of civilizations. The earth is covered with energy network. Civilizations originated and sanctuaries were built at the areas where its channels intersect. These sites turned into centers of worship for those who believed and were informed. The energy channels were called “the lines of the Dragon” by the ancient people. . If we compare the globe to the human body, the position of our country will be where the human ear is. It is no chance that there is a big concentration of historical and energy sites in a small geographical area,statistics proved, that in Bulgaria there more than anywere people with extrasensorial and healing abilities /worldfenomenon Vanga/ ,  A lot of ancient civilizations have left traces on the small rocky patch-Madara. There exist traces of the primitive people. Traces of the Thracian mysteries can be found in the caves. The big cave, being a natural amphitheatre, has been used for concerts due to its mystical acoustics from the remote past to this day. In the past the site was called the temple of the three nymphs, patrons of the water and nature. The water falls down as nymphs’ tear-drops and makes the cave look like an ice palace in winter. There are several cult stones nearby. They radiate strong energy. The ancient rocky church “St. Panteleymon” was preserved there at the crossroads of the civilizations. The saint has been a patron of the healers and prophets since the remote past. The rocky bas-relief of the Madara Horseman lies in the centre of this magic site. It is not the only such relief in the world. The same horseman with a dog and a lion, carved in a rock, was found in Tibet, Latin America and India. The relief in Tibet was called Maytraya – the future Savior of the mankind. In some Tibetan texts this name sounds like Majdar, very close to Madara. The Mardar mountain, considered sacred for the Buddhists, is in Tibet. There sleeps the mythical dragon Shesha, analogous to the earth kundalini. In the Celtic runic characters there is a rune -  Madar, meaning a horseman or God of the Sun. Runic symbols were also used in the Proto-Bulgarian Tangrist characters. This was proved by the numerous rocky legends that were discovered. The rune Madar also stands for the supreme ego of the person.    
     
Hypotheses

Madara Horseman might not be a specific image of a Bulgarian khan, as some historians suggest, basing their arguments on the legends on the bar-relief which obviously were made later. The new research of Bulgarian, Russian, and Chinese historians found out that this was probably the image of the God of the Sun and of the god Tangra himself.
The ruins of an ancient priest temple and a horizontal observatory are found several meters away from the horseman. There archeologists have recently found out a container with a bar-relief of the signs of the Zodiac, which was 6000 years old according to the research.              
A tablet with the image of a priest-kolober holding the symbol of Tangra or the runic Madar was discovered in Madara. The ancient Bulgarian priests–kolobers were famous for their astrological and astronomic knowledge. One of the most ancient calendars representing the signs of the Zodiac with the images of animals is Bulgarian. Later it was taken up by the Chinese. According to some historians it was made more than 6000 years ago. And some more mysteries …
In Madara there is a mystical stone surrounded by a fortified wall. Its healing power was well known even to the medieval Europeans, which can be read in the Vatican chronicles. Pilgrims from all over Europe congregated at the site of the stone even in the XIII century. Its power derives from the site and the interrelated energy influence. It must not be broken, and people must not break off pieces as a souvenir. If someone takes a walk in the vicinity of Madara at night, he will see a mystical bluish radiance emitted by the rocks.
P O B I T I  K A M A N I /THE STONE FOREST/

The mystery of the Bulgarian Stonehenge is expected to be solved. The secrets of the energy sites in Bulgaria challenge the scientists to make new hypothesis and findings. Is it no chance that there are the most numerous world phenomena on the small territory of our country, covered with energy sites?              
         In the vicinity of Varna
         One of the energy and powerful sites is situated less than 20 km from Varna on the way to Shoumen – Pobiti Kamani. The phenomenon in this site can be compared to the popular Stonehenge but it is a rather older formation. There exist about tens of hypotheses about the stone columns, well arranged like in an ancient temple, as if grown in the sandy soil so far from the sea. The questions challenging the scientists are too many. Why there is sand at the site. How the mysterious stone “trees” each with a hollow in it grew. Were they formed by the nature or left by an unknown civilization?
         Common hypotheses
         According to one of them, the queer columns made of pressed sand appeared          as a result of the pressure and the temperature of the hot geysers, which erupted from the sea bottom (the site was thought to be under the water) 50 million years ago. The winds and the changes in the climate have given a final touch to “the stone forest”. According to another hypothesis, those were ancient coral reefs, and according to a third one – those were natural trees having survived through the ages and sunken into the sea, covered with microorganisms and sand. Other historians suggest that these stones were formed as stalactites and stalagmites in a cave. Actually, the composition of the Pobiti Kamani resembles mostly a specific material most similar to the concrete but it is also similar to the composition of the stalactites and stalagmites. However, there is the question: why, as looking closely at the stones, most of them seem to be arranged in a specific order and not chaotically scattered? Who formed a circle of stones with three columns in the centre of the site extending about 800 m? Most bio-energy therapists, extrasensory perceivers, and more sensitive people experience the extremely high energy level in this circle and its healing characteristics. Some visitors say that electronic devices and mobile phones do not operate properly in the circle. Those, familiar with the Bible, might compare the Pobiti Kamani to the ruins of Sodom and Gomorra after their destruction. Others might compare them to the ruins of the temple of Poseidon in the ancient Atlantida, described by Platonius. Until now no one has explored the underneath layer of this mystic site. How deep are “the roots” of the stone forest into the sand? It is strange that in the circumference of 60 sq. km there are about 15 more similar stone formations but much smaller ones. Assuming that these are the remnants of an ancient civilization, 50 million years old, how old are the homosapiens then? The mysteries are a lot, as well as the solutions but none of them is the only one and the only true for the time being. Only one fact is certain. This phenomenon needs a profound research by expert historians, biologists, chemists, oceanographers, etc. No one stays indifferent at the site. The sight is extremely magnificent at sunrise and sunset and in clear full moon night when one feels that he has visited another planet or another world.   
                         
P E R P E R I K O N
 

Nowadays, following “the lines of the Dragon” we will stop at a unique historical and energy site – Perperikon, situated about 20 km away from Kardzhali in the East Rhodopi Mountains. Thousands of years ago Orphic and Dionysus mystery rites were performed; the ancient priests followed the paths of the stars, planets, the sun and the moon and carefully drew them in the symbols on the stones. The traces of early horizontal observatories discovered by the archeologists testify to the development of the astronomy in the East Rhodopi Mountains and especially in Perperikon thousands of years ago. In the holy place – the temple, dedicated probably to Helios (the Sun), facing East, there is a special hole into which the first sun ray on the day of the summer solstice falls. This mystery symbolizes the fecundation of the Earth with the Sun Logos. On the territory of Bulgaria there are several sacral sites where such sanctuaries – observatories existed, for instance, in Madara, in the Valley of the Kings in Kazanlak …. In the temple Perperikon there is the specially carved stone whose relief is exactly the same as the outlines of the mountains across from it. With the aid of such steady measuring objects the ancient astronomers measured off significant astronomical events. The energies of many civilizations intersect at this unique site, whose highest point is at an elevation of 666 m. This is an orphic number and also a number which is mentioned together with 6666 in the books of Muldashev describing various high energy sites on the Earth. A team of explorers, who had visited Tibet and Lhasa beforehand, pointed out that the natural radioactive ground of Perperikon and Tibet was almost the same, especially in the round hall and next to the king’s throne.
According to Cassius Dio and Suetonius Tranquillus, the temple of Dionysus, famous for his prophets, was situated in the East Rhodopi Mountains. Roman emperors, Julius Caesar, and even Alexander Macedonian the Great thought for their prophecies. The consecrated into the Orphic mysteries - “abii” predicted the future by means of the fire. The ancient Thracian tribe Bessi dwelled in Perperikon 5-6 thousand years ago. Perperikon was founded in the era of the Crete-Minoan civilization and its blossoming as an economical and cultural centre dates back to 18 – 12 century B.C. Unique ceramics discovered in 2002 testify to the trade relations by the Sea of Marmara. During the Byzantine historical period Perperikon was a very important centre, there was the second residence of the bishops. A Christian church has been recently discovered in the upmost part of the site Perperikon dating back to IX century.
Actually, the archaeological miracle Perperikon can be compared to the discovery of Troy by Shliman. In order to feel the energy of this site at its full power, one should visit it during the period of vernal and autumnal equinox, or during the summer and winter solstice, and be touched by the sun ray carrying the kiss of Helios, prior to its immersion in the temple walls … .                                               
                                                           
ADRIANA VOTEY /historian, astrologer m.a, 
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