Adam kaya

The rock phenomenon is presumed to have been further shaped by human hand at the end of the Stone-Copper age. It is a figure with a cone-shaped body and a head with two faces. In its immediate vicinity are a rock tomb with a round burial chamber and a domed vault, and the so-called rock complex “Golemiyat kazan” (the Great Cauldron), in the locality Kazan beyuk, where a rock more than 30 m high bears many rock-cut monuments: niches, altars, grooves, channels and others.

Prof. Ana Raduncheva connects the anthropomorphic rock with finds of the Neolithic from the cult complex near the village of Dolnoslav, a figure of a two-faced, horned deity, and with a large hollow clay figure from the Starozagorski mineral baths, which is also two-faced. She does not exclude the possibility that this deity was widely venerated in the Neolithic and that, over time, this prehistoric divine figure inspired the appearance of the two-faced god Janus, guardian of entrances and exits, of heavenly gates, springs and waters, and of roads and travellers. In her view two-faced cult figures are a novelty of the late Neolithic, and all the characteristics with which ancient people endowed the image could be linked with those of late Eneolithic traders. It is very likely, according to Raduncheva, that Adam kaya was a place of veneration of the two-faced deity.