Baba and “tičnica” shrines
The word “Baba” refers to lonely rock formations, which reminded our ancestors, Old Believers and natural believers, of ageing hunched women, and in some cases even of old men. In latter cases they called them “dedci”. It seems that the designers of prehistoric sanctuaries were happy if they saw a beautiful “baba” on the chosen hill, either as a confirmation that they had come to the right place, or they used the rock for an altar or sacrificial altar.

Among the Slovene local-traditional names, there are many that are connected with Baba. There are over fifty such names and place-name combinations in the index of place name of the Atlas of Slovenia. There are even more traditional names for various lonely rocks, rock formations, water bodies or caves, which are known only to the locals, and knowledge about them is preserved by oral tradition.
The sanctuaries of the natural believers were gathering places of spirits and places of intercession of believers to God, and therefore they were not particularly inviting to human looters, except for the not particularly valuable things offered on the altars. That is why the shrine builders focused more on accessibility rather than on the safety of their churches.
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