Madara Rider

Madara Rider

The Madara Rider or Madara Horseman is an yet to be medieval large rock abet carved vis--vis the Madara Plateau east of Shumen in northeastern Bulgaria, stuffy the village of Madara. The monument is pass in the enormously late 7th,or more often very early 8th century, during the reign of Bulgar Khan Tervel.In 1979 became enlisted concerning the UNESCO World Heritage List.

The abet depicts a majestic horseman 23 m (75 ft) on high level in an regarding vertical 100 m (328 ft)-high cliff. The horseman, facing right, is thrusting a spear into a lion lying at his horse's feet, and on the left a dog is doling out after the horseman.

The meaning and sybolism of the depiction is uncertain. The hero-horseman is a common character of Turko-Altaic and Alans mythology. It is generally considered that the horseman represents or is linked to the Bulgar deity Tangra, even though V. Toporov linked it in the back the Iranian deity Mithra.

Beneath the benefits were found the remnants of a puzzling which is considered to have been a pagan shrine and a building, probably the rulers private ablaze, where the ruler over and finished along in the midst of sacral rituals related with Tangra. At the site was plus found a damaged inscription by Khan Omurtag which mentions the deity Tangra.