Pásztor Emília (szerk.): A fény régészete. A természetes fény szerepe az őskori ember életében - Bajai dolgozatok 20. (Baja, 2017)

Pásztor Emília: A bronzkori fényszimbolizmus

Probably the sun column' was the inspiration behind the small disc-earrings, dress accessories decorated with concentric circles and a spike at the centre which are common artifacts of the Carpathian Late Bronze Age. Larger, similarly shaped and richly decorated belt-discs with central spikes are more typical of the Danish Bronze Age. Yet, there is a large belt-disc of northern origin richly decorated with these motifs at the permanent exhibition of the Wosinszky Mór Museum in Szekszárd, Hungary (Szabó 1995, Figure 8). Figure 6 Archaeological artifacts indicate the atmospheric phenomenon with the greatest impact was the one which appearr as a huge, four-spoke wheel in the sky. This symbol not only appears on earring, but on multiple items such as the bronze greaves of Rinyaszentkirály or the unique disc of Hasfalva (Pásztor 2015). Figure 7 This depiction can already be found in the Carpathian Basin during the Neolithic when the (spoked) wheel hadn't been invented yet.

Often small so-called side-suns or side-moons can be seen on both sides of the sun and the moon which also explains the magic role of the number three. Three points are a typical motif of the crescent moon shaped gold bracelet of Magyarbénye and Bellye, and the discs of the Somogyom gold treasure. Figure 8 (Magyarbénye today, Biia; Somogyom, today Smig, Romania, Bellye, today Bilje, Croatia) Figure 9 (Kovács - Raczky 2000, Figure 23. and 25.; Mozsolics 1951, Fig. 1).

A rare form of complex halos is when the Sun is surrounded symmetrically by four side-suns.

Az öt meltéknap szimbóluma régészeti leleteken.

Durman 2000. Fig. 38 és Catalogue 3. kép nyomán. Aleksandar Durman engedélyével

Symbols of five suns on Vucedol

After Durman 2000. Fig. 38 and Catalogue 3. By courtesy of Aleksandar Durman

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