More altars used to predict, and future alteration found in a city of Armenia.
Three altars 3,300 years old were discovered in a fortress on the hill Gegharot of Armenia.
Spiritual leaders of that time used them, most likely, for divination, a practice of divination of the future, say archaeologists who made the discovery.
Each altar was in a room with a pool of mud, in which were found pottery and traces of ash.
Archaeologists have discovered a wide variety of artifacts including clay idols with horns, seals, censers and many animal bones, with different markings.
During the ceremonies of divination, the priests and those present would have burned certain substances and drank wine as to achieve a state of mind "altered" and see so future researchers say.
"The logic behind divination implies the existence of paths to the past, present and future, the possible consequences of the current alteration," wrote Adam Smith, in an article on the discovery of Armenia.
Smith believes that the city of Gegharot was used in particular for occult rituals. Evidence suggests that there would have been many rituals of predicting the future.
Specifically, leaders should be used bones of cows, sheep or goats. They were large, burned and discarded, similar to dice, hoping to reveal events that were to follow. Varying interpretations depending on how the bones fell.
Archaeologists have found evidence to suggest that here was practiced divination with stones. In a pool of clay pebbles were found 18 that would have made it possible to predict the future.
"They seem to have been selected for rounded form and color palette ranging from black and dark gray, white, green and red" notes Smith.
The altar was found in the eastern city facility with which grind flour. Archaeologists believe that it was made from flour dough balls that locals print with seals.
Although the leading citizens of many forms of divination practiced, trying to predict, but to alter the future, their efforts proved unsuccessful. The city burned after a conflict in the Caucasus.
Source: Live Science
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