About the Șona mounds
In principle, it is not known what is the matter with these earthen pyramids raised like this from nothing on a slightly undulating terrain. I read from sources on the net, from an article in Adevarul, some assumptions. The villagers call these mounds guruieti, which means mounds of earth. I met a wagoner on the way back and asked him what he knew about the mounds? The man appreciated that they would be at least from before the world wars and that there would be hidden treasures in their wombs. Bang bang! Who knows? He also said that there are other Guruieti in the area, taller than those from Sona, but no one knows about them, only the locals. Some would be in the locality to which the cart road apparently led, the village of Halmeag. The fairly detailed terrain map from which I am documenting does not highlight any “peaks” there as it appears in Sona next to the visited mounds.
Another hypothesis is that there would be some tumuli, which hide the graves of Scythian or Celtic leaders, from the time when these peoples crossed these places. Archaeologists found ceramic fragments from the Late Bronze Age and the Hallstatt period in the open site around the mounds.
A legend, which I think has a kernel of truth, says that these mounds come from the time of the Dacians. They would hide treasures. That’s why they haunted here and who else but treasure hunters. On the side, the guts of a mound, you can see signs of digging covered by vegetation. For triangle followers, there is also the fear that these mounds are part of the Dacian magic triangles, which include the Dacian capital Sarmizegetusa Regia, the Dacian fortress Piatra Rosie, the sanctuary of Racos, the temple of Sinca Veche and the peak of Omu in Bucegi.
Other legends talk about the yellow earth in the body of the mounds, others that they were built by giants and that they hide their graves.
