Engraved footprints on the Witch’s Stone
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A closer look to the engravings. Not only cups but also footprints.
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Deversi. Pietra delle Masche
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Deversi. Pietra delle Masche (Witches’ Stone or Hags’ Stone?)
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This stone is standing next to a spring. The engravings are spindle-shaped carvings ending in small cups, and others are just small cups.
This stone is very close to the menhirs of Ceresa 1 and Ceresa 2 (to the west of them).
I found this stone thanks to Mr Italo Pucci of Istituno Internazionale di Studi Liguri.
Fertility’s cult engraving on Bric Della Biscia
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Fertility’s engraving on Bric Della Biscia
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A closer look to the engravings about fertility cult
(is strange they didn’t christianised those ones...)
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engravings of fertility cult on Bric Della Biscia
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Bric Della Biscia by winter
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Bric Della Biscia by summer
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Dolmen Della Biscia
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Dolmen Della Biscia
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Dolmen Della Biscia
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Dolmen Della Biscia
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Dolmen Della Biscia
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On the left side of the dolmen’s entrance there’s this lovely engraving: a man and a stag dancing !
The man is NOT hunting the stag ! ....Sacred place..
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Dolmen Della Biscia
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Engraved footprints on the platform over the Bric Della Biscia
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This dolmen, filled of sacred engravings, is one of many sacred artifacts in a valley of the sacred mountain called Beigua. This mountain was very important for ancient Ligurians. The dolmen has lost his roof-stone, wich can be found next to it. and is laid near a river and a lake with the same name “della biscia” that means “river (or lake) of the water snake”.
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Here you can see the entrance of the dolmen with two big stones on the sides and one on the back.
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Monte Beigua. Dolmen, Hill, lake and river “Della Biscia”
On the northern slopes of Monte Beigua another sacred area, the other one is in Ceresa 1, Ceresa 2 and Strada Megalitica on the southern slopes.
This area is called “Della Biscia” (of the Water Snake) because there are a lake an hill and a river all named the same “Della Biscia”. It has all to do with the cult of the waters (very plentiful here as on the southern side of the mountain) and with the cult of the “fairy-eel”. Water Snake and Eel are the same thing. But on the hill some engravings are showing also a fertility cult.
The area is not so far from Pietra Scritta, sited on the north-west of Monte Beigua. All around there are many engraved stones and a dolmen that has lost his roof-stone, which can be found next to it.
My big thanks again to Mr Italo Pucci and Mr Fenoglio. Their information has led me to the site.
not such a great picture but can you see the stylized man (with arms and legs) inscribed between a space made by three lines ?
Image credit: Monte Beigua, Pietra Scritta. Photo by Ligurian Tommy Leggy
Image credit: Monte Beigua, Pietra Scritta. Photo by Ligurian Tommy Leggy
Image credit: Monte Beigua, Pietra Scritta. Photo by Ligurian Tommy Leggy
Here it’s shown where the ancients put their offerings or lit their candles
Image credit: Monte Beigua, Pietra Scritta. Photo by Ligurian Tommy Leggy
Image credit: Monte Beigua, Pietra Scritta. Photo by Ligurian Tommy Leggy
Image credit: Monte Beigua, Pietra Scritta. Photo by Ligurian Tommy Leggy
Image credit: Monte Beigua, Pietra Scritta. Photo by Ligurian Tommy Leggy
Image credit: Monte Beigua, Pietra Scritta. Photo by Ligurian Tommy Leggy
Image credit: Monte Beigua, Pietra Scritta. Photo by Ligurian Tommy Leggy
Image credit: Monte Beigua, Pietra Scritta. Photo by Ligurian Tommy Leggy
strange head with strange eye on it
Image credit: Monte Beigua, Pietra Scritta. Photo by Ligurian Tommy Leggy
Image credit: Monte Beigua, Pietra Scritta. Photo by Ligurian Tommy Leggy
Image credit: Monte Beigua, Pietra Scritta. Photo by Ligurian Tommy Leggy
Image credit: Monte Beigua, Pietra Scritta. Photo by Ligurian Tommy Leggy
Image credit: Monte Beigua, Pietra Scritta. Photo by Ligurian Tommy Leggy
Image credit: Monte Beigua, Pietra Scritta. Photo by Ligurian Tommy Leggy
Image credit: Monte Beigua, Pietra Scritta. Photo by Ligurian Tommy Leggy
Image credit: Monte Beigua, Pietra Scritta. Photo by Ligurian Tommy Leggy
Image credit: Monte Beigua, Pietra Scritta. Photo by Ligurian Tommy Leggy
Image credit: Monte Beigua, Pietra Scritta. Photo by Ligurian Tommy Leggy
I like to think this engrave can be the “fairy-eel"singing.
Image credit: Monte Beigua, Pietra Scritta. Photo by Ligurian Tommy Leggy
Image credit: Monte Beigua, Pietra Scritta. Photo by Ligurian Tommy Leggy
Always grateful to Mr Italo Pucci and Mr M Fenoglio from the Istituto Internazionale di Studi Liguri, to the memory of whom I want to dedicate my little work in this site. Because of them I found this great engraved Sacred Stone. It stands on the northern slopes of Monte Beigua on a bank of the river Traversa and it has to do with a water cult.
It appears as a big blackboard where people wrote through the centuries. So engraved there you’ll find prehistoric sacred images together with christian crosses (specially made to exorcise the stone...) together with much more modern engravings, such as people’s names. Anyway the oldest engravings are recognisable and still remarkable.