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

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Universe (Selkup people live in Southern-Western Siberia and are supposed to have historic links with the Sayan Mountain region). One of the drawings represents a shaman's journey to Heaven (fig. 8), which is represented by two semicircles connected with the Earth, i.e. the human word, by the ladder - way of spirits'. The two semicircles were described as Heaven's interior; the shaman could reach only

its lower level while the highest (upper semicircle) was inaccessible for him. On the left of Heaven's interior is the composition consisting of sledge, tree, a yurt-dwelling, and seven 'human' figures. Above them is the sun. Significantly, Selkups associated all of these images with the sun: sledge was described as the vehicle of the rising sun, the tree was referred to as a solar tree, the yurt was a

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