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kokino – HolY Mountain and anCient oBServatorY - 11
The latest researches and discovered artifacts (Fig. 10) showed that
the site had been inhabited in the 7th century B. C., which prolongs its
use to over 1,200 years. This is exactly why on the site, but also in the
larger region, great quantity of fragmented pottery is found.
Many nations believe that climbing a mountain symbolizes the life
of a man. Looking from the footing of the mountain, it has the symbol
of a world’s axis, or an axis around which the whole universe is spinning.
Looking from the peak of the mountain, it has the symbol of the center
of the world and going back to the primordial rules of the creation of
the world. This is why the peak of the holy mountain is often equalized
with the umbilicus of the world.