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Terminology
the term "gol" in Pahlavi form and "gool" in azerbaijani form, in Persian means fire and flame, and Cole in Kurdi means a fire.cole(cool) in Turkish means ash. "Gol” hill refers to the time that there has been fire and cole hill refers to the time that there is ash there now. Anyway both address fire and have marks of the ancient fire temples.
Cause of creation
there are different guesses about the origin of these ash hills in Iran's Azerbaijan. Most scientists believe that this mass of ash is remains of the firewood, which was burning in fire temples and during the centuries leave a hill of ash behind, But because in the large fire-temples elsewhere in the country that are even close to the hill, there is no ash, some researchers do not agree with this theory. Another theory is that, perhaps the cause should be sought in the costums of people of the area . The area around the Urmia lake,was the first landing place for Medes and Persian ancestry that worshiped Zarathustra and at the dawn of immigration were still not aware of Zoroastrianism and perhaps still Zoroaster was not in the world. It seems like the worshipers of Zarathustra alike their Hindi consanguineouses burnt their dead in a special place and this plenty of ash,is the residue of wood and firewood, which was burn to make a fire to burn the corpse in. According to ancient traditions, they put ceramics or metal between ashes for the after-death life of the dead and dumped Soft soil on the ash heap to prepare the place,so they could put firewood on the ground for burning the next corpse. then they gathered Burnt bones and poured them into cylindricals near the fire temples. As of today, when the corpse rots in the cellar and is free from meat and skin, bones are shed in the ossuary well. The burning of the dead is mentioned in Avesta, and it is considered as a great sin, and it brings that in Vandidad(the Parthian era), the tradition still existed in parts of Iran.
Foot note
1-Farahvashi.Iranwich.page 151 2-Farahvashi.Iranwich.page 153 &154
references
1-Farahvashi,Bahram,Iranwich,second edition,Tehran:Tehran university,1989