Stone Wedding — Stone Wedding Medovo BG
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Скалното светилище Вкаменена сватба се намира на север от село Медово, (Община Братя Даскалови) на разстояние 2 km от центъра на населеното място.

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Stone Wedding, also called Медово, is a rock sanctuary in Bulgaria. It lies 2 km north of the village of Medovo in the municipality of Братя Даскалови. Its central feature is a rock arch facing south, with numerous secondary cuttings worked into the surrounding rock mass.

The surviving traces include carvings around the arch, signs of melted wax from candles burned nearby, and a small tree on the right-hand side of the megalithic arch. Visitors have also left small coins and rings at the site. On the left and west are further traces connected with ritual activity.

The place entered scholarly discussion in 2006, when проф. Васил Марков carried out field research. He published the results the following year. Local memory preserves an ancient ritual in which visitors passed upward through the rock arch toward a high rock platform beyond it.

The ritual practices were linked by проф. Васил Марков chiefly with the Great Goddess-Mother and with rites dedicated to Слънцебог in Orphic magical practice. Later healing customs included leaving strips of clothing or thread at the tree and washing in a sacred spring, mainly for women’s infertility. These practices are interpreted as survivals of an ancient ceremonial tradition, although strongly secularized and folklore-shaped in Bulgarian popular culture.

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Stone Wedding is a megalith (abstract root) in Medovo, Bulgaria. Wikidata describes it as: megalithic sanctuary in Bulgaria. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the Bulgarian article "Вкаменената сватба (Медово)", shown in the original language.