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

solar yurt (exactly 'house of spirits of sunrays') from which the sun appeared every day, and the row of seven humans was referred to as sunrays-people (number 'seven' in Selkup mythology means 'many'). These latter persons are actually halfhuman and half-bird beings which were identified by Selkups as 'souls' or 'life potentials'. The solar epithet of the humans was associated with the life giving power of the sun (the sun was also believed to have power to bring the dead back to life ). Sunrays-humans symbolized thus the descending power of the sun, and this is why humans are bird-like beings - they descended from Heaven to the Earth flying down like birds. In the centre of the Earth, next to the ladder, stands the shaman holding a drum (in this case his work concerned hunting magic).

This one scene demonstrates, on the one hand, the importance of the sun in shamanic beliefs, and, on the other hand, the complexity of sun symbolism in Siberian cosmologies. The Sun was the symbol

Isziak szertartás. Fehér sámán eteti a tüzet a rituális kumisz itallal, amely erjesztett kancatejből készül. Oleniok, Szaha Köztársaság (Jakutföld).

Ysyakh ceremony in Oleniok, Sakaha Republic (Yakutia). 'White shaman' feeds fire with ritual drink kumys made from fermented mare's milk of.

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