Pásztor Emília (szerk.): A fény régészete. A természetes fény szerepe az őskori ember életében - Bajai dolgozatok 20. (Baja, 2017)
Andrzej Rozwadowski: Utazás a Naphoz. Égi szimbólumok a sámánizmusban és a szibériai, valamint a közép-ázsiai sziklarajzokon
jrneys to the Sun and Central Asia date to Upper Paleolithic or Neolithic periods, while most recent images were created in XVIII-XIX centuries (Rozwadowski 2004; Rozwadowski and Lymer 2012; Jacobson-Tepher 2015). Although we cannot be sure to what extent the rock art images were symbolic in nature, there is no question that they "commented" on local culture. Even if they coded complex symbolic Bal oldali fotón: Sámán dobbal. Bal oldalán egy jurta, jobb oldalán három szent fa, melyeket gyakran festettek sámándobra is, ahogy az a jobb oldali fotón látható Bichiktubom, Krakaol-völgy, Altáj. - A dob (kb. 50 cm átmérő) az A.V. Anokhin Nemzeti Múzeum gyűjteményében található. Gorno-Altajszk. Left photo: Shaman with drum: on his/her left there is a yurt, and on his right three sacred trees, which have often been depicted on shamanic drums, as seen in the right photo. Note also images of the sun present both on the historic drum, and the drum held by the human depicted on the rock. Petroglyphs from Bichiktu-bom in the krakaol Valley in Altay - they were digitally marked in black to enhance their visibility. Drum (diameter ca. 50 cm) - collection of The National Museum of A.V. Anokhin in Gorno-Altaisk. concepts, they did it through images which often held realistic references. So, although shamanism is full of symbols which refer to myths and the invisible world, the shaman has always been a real figure, which also used real ritual attributes (fig. 1). Such images of shamans can be found also in rock art (Rozwadowski 2012). The most evident shamanic imagery comes from relatively recent times, probably throughout the last few centuries. The rock images of shamans are often marked out by their key ritual attribute - the drum (fig. 2). Some of them are shown as single figures (fig. 3), in other cases they appear in 155
