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      The Miraculous Hunt     The   Bulgarian village of Tsarevets is situated on the left bank of river Iskar, not far from the small regional centre Mezdra. Between the village and the river, nature dug several small caves. It is hard to say when, but it's very probable that already in antiquity people considered the place holly and used it for spiritual practices. The cave complex was discovered in 1962, but for some time was appreciated mostly for Cyrillic inscriptions found there. Its value though comes from hundreds of rock picture and Bulgar Runiform inscriptions carved there. This work presents one of the panels incised on the soft limestone, named as the title suggests "The Magic hunt".     The panel is carved in a cave called by locals "Biyarnitzata". The name come, not surprisingly, from the Bulgar word "bij" (god, master) and its meaning can be roughly translated as "The place where gods were worshipped". "The Magic hunt...