The Bucegi Mountains are located in central Romania, south of the city Braşov, being a part of the Southern Carpathians. There are some legends of these mountains some of them lasting for thousands of years, The Bucegi is believed to be the Dacian holy mountain Kogaion.
It is said that Zamolxis, the supreme God of the Dacians (who are the ancestors of the Romanian people), had his home and sanctuary in a cave, inside the Kogaion. According to Strabo, Zalmoxis retreated in the Kogaion cave to consult the oracles. The cave must have been branched labyrinth-like, the legend said that Zamolxis was disappearing for long lapses of time in the depth of the mountain. According to Herodotus, The Dacians who believed in the immortality of the soul, looked upon death merely as going to Zalmoxis, as they knew the way to become immortals.
Kogaion is translated as "Sacred Mountain" or "The Head of The Magnificient", nowadays known as "The Sphinx".
On the plateau there are also some mushroom shaped rock formations, the result of erosion and varying hardness of the rock layers; their name is "Babele" (Old Ladies), some legends are also telling that a female and her sheep were transformed in the rocks we see today.
