Mountain Yanardag

Yanardag - a small mountain (rather hill) on Absheron peninsula, 25 km north of Baku. Literally, the word "Yanardag" means "burning mountain". And the mountain is burning, burning of the present - here and there on the rocks and on the ground flare bright languages ​​plameni.

Mountain lit in rain and snow, and strong winds because of its depths pulled out the natural fuel gas. He comes here from thin layers of porous sandstone. In ancient times, these places of natural eruption of fire from the ground in Absheron was mnogo.

According to the Azerbaijani culture experts - oil and gas lies so deep, that in some places they spilled out into a flame. Just before the mid-19th century on the Apsheron Peninsula were places where from the lit wick earth began "burning torch" ... 25,995,471

And there are documentary evidence - such natural "torches of nowhere" describe many travelers, including Marco Polo and Alexander Dyuma.

Three languages ​​flames depicted on the emblem of the city of Baku. The territory of the Apsheron Peninsula in ancient times was one of the centers of Zoroastrianism, and still is a place of pilgrimage for the fire-worshipers from India and Iran - because of the "eternal fires» .



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Source: trasyy.livejournal.com/972104.html