Draft:The cult stone of Rudi

The cult stone of Rudi (The Rudi worship stone; russian: Рудьский культовый камень, Рудянский культовый камень, Рудьская лапидарная стела, Поклонный камень Рудь, Христианское святилище тиверцев на Среднем Днестре; romanian: Stela lapidară cu semne şi simboluri medievale de la Rudi, Piatră de închinare medievală de la Rudi) — the unique megalitic anthropomorphic monument of The Early Middle Ages.

The cult stone of Rudi — dating back to the Spread of Christianity period of the spread of Christianity n the Dniester-Prut interfluve.

The monument was found by Igor. A. Bondar in 2017.

The unique cult monument is the central dominant of the early medieval archaeological complex of the 9th–10th centuries and can be described as a lapidarian pyramidal stele with a pronounced anthropomorphic outline of the front side.

The stone appears to have been used for liturgical, calendar and ritual purposes. The worship stone was intended for cult and calendar needs, and had an orientation towards astronomically relevant events.

It has a clear astrological and archaeological significance and testifies to a strong influence of Christianity in the Early Middle Ages.

In the worship stone there is an old-type altar, consisting of drainage systems: a cup-shaped cavity and a gutter, and two rectangular niches for icons.

The sacred stone has various solar and lunar signs and other cosmogonic symbols, runes and rune-like symbols, cruciform tamgas, Pattee crosses, anthropomorphic and ornithomorphic figures, a previously unknown type of bident, an image of Jesus Christ, and an image of a book with a cross.

Several symbols of the worship stone are due to its local and regional syncretism. The main symbols and signs on its front are grouped into three sacred plots.

The object is unique, has no known direct analogies, and bears traces of Old Russian, The First Bulgarian Kingdom, Byzantine and Viking  influence.

The cult stone of Rudi was created by the local population of the Luka- Raikovets (Alcedar-Echimăuţi) archaeological culture in the Early Middle Ages.

Mass media

 * Храм под открытым небом — учёный из Молдовы нашел уникальный объект — https://bloknot-moldova.ru/news/khram-pod-otkrytym-nebom-molodoy-uchenyy-sdelal-po-1356631
 * Как выглядит уникальный памятник со знаками и символами близ села Рудь (ВИДЕО) — https://noi.md/ru/obshhestvo/kak-vyglyadit-unikalinyj-pamyatnik-so-znakami-i-simvolami-bliz-sela-rudi-video
 * Исследователь Игорь Бондарь сделал громкое научное открытие в селе Рудь Сорокского района — https://locals.md/2021/unikalny-hram/
 * Официальное видео Национального Археологического Агентства Республики Молдова, об археологических исследованиях Рудьского культового камня в 2021 г. — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhDOo9gwb4U&t=41s
 * O relatare despre stela lapidară cu semne si simboluri medievale de la Rudi (r-nul Soroca), descoperită în 2017 de Igor Bondar (Сообщение о Рудьской лапидарной стеле со средневековыми символами и знаками, из Сорокского района, открытой Игорем Бондарем в 2017 г.) — https://bloknot-moldova.ru/news/khram-pod-otkrytym-nebom-molodoy-uchenyy-sdelal-po-1356631