It is assumed that the Thracians are an illiterate people. Still, some Thracian words have survived and are known to linguists. Among these words is the word "suka" - crack, crack, narrowness. The same word the Thracians have also been used for a girl. It is noteworthy that the words "cleft" and "girl" use a word with a common root. It is interesting to us that the highest peak in Pazardzhik is Syutka peak. Wasn't this peak for the Thracians "Su (t) ka" - Cepnatina peak (Tsepina)?
From the deepest antiquity the peak called Sutka (Tsepina) was known to the Thracians. It is logical that the main fortress that protected the settlements, sanctuaries and approaches to this peak should be called Tsepina. Subsequently, when the meaning of the word "day" was forgotten, the legend of the splitting of the mountain between "Alabak" and "Karkaria" was born and so the name appeared was Tsepinskaya hollow, but during the Turkish rule, because the Turks could not pronounce "ts", it became "Chepino" and "Chepisnka hollow".
The worship of the Thracians before the splendor of the mountain and before the wonder of the water gushing from the rock, it has left its mark on the whole region. In Thracian "kaba (s)" means "swamp", "swamp". The area called "Kabata" is just below the peak Syutka. There are many springs at an altitude of about 2000 meters, which shocks geologists, as all the peaks around are lower and are waterless. Some of these springs are captured and are connected to the municipal water supply Rakitovo.
The presence of many water has served as the foundation in the 50s of the 20th century peak Great Syutka to be named Golyam Voden peak, and Malka Syutka peak - Malak Voden peak. Probably in this renaming of the peak they also had in mind the eastern cult of the goddess Yer Su. Yer means land (rock) and Su means water, which means that the name of the peak must be pronounced Day. The local population did not accept these names and soon the authentic Thracian toponymic names were restored - Malka and Golyama Syutka.
The renaming of the Thracian sound Sutka in Syutka it probably happened again during the Turkish rule. In Turkish, "Suite" means "milk". And because the top has a lot of limestone, marble and is often covered with fog, the name is given the meaning of "milk" peak, "white" peak. This again shows that the Thracian meaning of the word "su (t) ka" - cleft, cleft, has already been forgotten.
Long before the Liberation, in his book “Geographical-historical-statistical DESCRIPTION of the Tatar-Pazardzhik kaaza” the local historian St. Zahariev calls the highest peak in the Pazardzhik region "Gyoz Tepe". "Gyoz" in Turkish means "eye" and "tepe" - peak. In other words - the peak "Eye".
When we connect this name - Mount Okoto - with the idea that the Sanctuary of Dionysus is sought there, we can find a double meaning. In a literal sense, this is a great view of Rila, Pirin, Thrace, Stara Planina, The Middle Rhodopes. In a figurative sense, through the presence of the prophetess and the besis - the Thracian priests, this is the spiritual eye of the world, which looks into the past, present and future.
The text is provided by Svilen Topchiev
