Mystery Of The Ancient Giant Wish Stone At Hattusa
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - There is a mysterious giant ancient green rock in the capital of the Hittite Empire in central Turkey. Anyone who visits Hattusa, the capital of the empire can admire this beautiful and rare stone, but its history is shrouded in secrets.
The holy green stone at Huttusa. Credit: Carole Raddato, Public Domain
Locals refer to it as the wish stone, but it’s unclear what the stone was used for. The green rock doesn’t appear to have any valuable properties, but it was nevertheless important to many ancient civilizations who once inhabited the region.
The Hittites were once one of the most powerful ancient civilizations that occupied the ancient region of Anatolia.
This long-gone culture has been of great interest to archaeologists and historians but unraveling the truth about the Hittites has been a difficult task. A majority of the Hittites were illiterate and could not describe their daily life. The information we possess about the Hittites come from ancient clay tablets.
However, the green rock remains a centuries-old mystery and there is no mention of the stone on the stone tablets.
Scientists have long tried to figure out why the rock was carried to the ancient site and what it was used for. According to researchers the green rock is different from all others found at the site but does not have valuable properties.
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Associate Professor Andreas Schachner who examined the stone said it could be a serpentine or a nephrite, but it’s still a mystery why it has attracted the attention of our ancestors.
It’s not a special stone but special stone, but it is remarkable that it is preserved monolithically. Perhaps ancient people valued it because of its wonderful green color.
Image credit: Hurriet Daily News
Stone worship was widespread in ancient times, and it “is one of the oldest forms of religion of which we have evidence. It has frequently persisted in venerable cults in the midst of high stages of civilization and in the presence of elevated religious conceptions, while its survivals in popular superstitions have proved nearly ineradicable.” 1
Stones of worship could be of different size and shape. “The holy stone was sometimes a natural rock, of striking form or position, in situ; sometimes a prehistoric megalith; more frequently a rude block set up for a purpose. “2
Hole stones were often used as altars, or as we suspect in the case of the green Hattusastone they made have been a place where people gathered to make special wishes.
Written by Conny Waters – AncientPages.com Staff Writer
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Expand for references- Encyclopedia Biblica, III, 2279; cf.3352
- Moore, George F. "Baetylia." American Journal of Archaeology7, no. 2 (1903): 198-208. doi:10.2307/496676.
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