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Petra is wrongly considered an enigma, mainly because the historians are looking at the wrong direction. Petra is not a temple but a Mausoleum, or the burial place of a Thracian, Phrygian or Macedonian king. Very similar structures can be found in southern Asia Minor, Bulgaria and northern Greece. These are the lands of Thrace, Phrygia and Macedonia. While in Asia Minor tombs are carved from the rocks like Petra, in Bulgaria and Northern Greece the kings preferred burial mounds with platforms for libations at the entrance. Often the tombs can also be found in the rocky Rhodopi Mountains with the same stairways leading to a high platform on top of the rocky formation obviously for religious ceremonies. Both the tombs and the earth mounds were the burial places of the Tracian, Phrygian and Macedonian kings, who were also high priests and considered to be of divine origin. The very word Mousoleum comes from the name of king Mausolus, a Prygian. No doubt after the conquests of Alexander The Great Thracians, Prygian and Macedonians adopted some elements from Greek architectural styles, but the presence of Amazones carrying double axes is another proof that the person buried in Petra belonged to one of the three ancient tribal groups mentioned above. The water, one of the unavoidable elements in the history of the Nabateans is also a strong evidence of the ethnic background of the inhabitants of the region: in Thrace the water is revered even today as sacred with magic properties, and can be called "silenced" or "live". florov@telus.net
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