Hamza Stone

Hamza Taşı (means Hamza Stone in Turkish) is a black colored antic rock at the Giresun Adası. The stone symbolizes the Kybele, mother Goddess. It sits on a basement holder with three stone legs like a very short tripod ("Sacayak" in Turkish). It is estimated that Hamza Taşı has been a wish stone since four thousand years. Today, in third ritual of ceremony programme of Aksu Festival Hamza Taşı is visited as a tradition. The tour around the Giresun Adası begins in front of Hamza Taşı and ends there again. As a tradition visitors of the stone put their hands on it and make wishes to be happened soon. Especially if women having no child put their hands on the stone it is believed that they will have one. Because the fireplace (or oven) composes of sacayak and fire is considered as the symbol of having house and then being a family. Continuity of a family is reached with children.