Three Graces (Beauties)
by carkaci
Hi friends !! This photo was taken in Cappadocia. You can find some information about this natural beauty ''Three Graces'' below ;
This amazing natural formation is well known not only its enchanting landscape but also its incredible story.
LEGEND OF THREE GRACES
When the tourists visit Urgüp, those unique fairy chimneys named Three Beauties grabs and fascinates them. Thus, they wander its mystic history. According to a legend, once upon a time, in Kingdom Period, there was a king and his daughter, princess living peacefully together here. After he lost his wife, the king began to be addicted his only daughter. Also he worried about her due to the fact that she was very beautiful and charming.
Therefore, all men in country wanted to be married her. But princess fell in love with a shepherd. The king disapproved that marriage because of that he decided his darling princess to be married with authorized man. However, she escaped from the palace and got secretly married with this shepherd.
After years, she give birth a baby. Then she thought that maybe his father forgive them thanks to their child and set off to the palace. The king did not mercy although they had a child. He ordered these soldiers to kill this family. When the princess run away those soldiers of the king, she prayed to the God: please, my God, make us either a stone or a bird. The God accepted their prayer and they immediately convert into a stone (todays fairy chimney called Three Graces). So, these three fairy chimneys (Üç Güzeller) symbolizes as the princess, her husband and her child.
This amazing natural formation is well known not only its enchanting landscape but also its incredible story.
LEGEND OF THREE GRACES
When the tourists visit Urgüp, those unique fairy chimneys named Three Beauties grabs and fascinates them. Thus, they wander its mystic history. According to a legend, once upon a time, in Kingdom Period, there was a king and his daughter, princess living peacefully together here. After he lost his wife, the king began to be addicted his only daughter. Also he worried about her due to the fact that she was very beautiful and charming.
Therefore, all men in country wanted to be married her. But princess fell in love with a shepherd. The king disapproved that marriage because of that he decided his darling princess to be married with authorized man. However, she escaped from the palace and got secretly married with this shepherd.
After years, she give birth a baby. Then she thought that maybe his father forgive them thanks to their child and set off to the palace. The king did not mercy although they had a child. He ordered these soldiers to kill this family. When the princess run away those soldiers of the king, she prayed to the God: please, my God, make us either a stone or a bird. The God accepted their prayer and they immediately convert into a stone (todays fairy chimney called Three Graces). So, these three fairy chimneys (Üç Güzeller) symbolizes as the princess, her husband and her child.
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Uploaded21/08/2016 - 12:22
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Posted 21/08/2016 - 14:30
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Ellida wrote:
Great image - and thanks for the story line.
+1 Best regardsGreat image - and thanks for the story line.
Peter
Posted 21/08/2016 - 18:04
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A "beautiful"story as those that we were used to listen to in childhood....Today "computer-games" translate into a battle strange stories of Good and Bad peoples.....Target is to kill the "Bad".....In the past bad peoples became "monsters" and Good ones became "Prince-Princess or beautiful swans"....In this story they survive as "perpetual smart stones"....A beautiful Fairy Tale well depicted by your photo
Posted 22/08/2016 - 14:34
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Thanks a lot for your interests and kind comments,friends !
Regards;
Emre
Emre
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