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

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of power emanating from the Sky. Interestingly, the sun is similarly worshiped today. Probably a most spectacular example of the present-day veneration of the sun is the Sakha (Yakut) (people inhabiting eastern Siberia) ceremony of New Year, Ysyakh (fig. 9), during which inhabitants of whole villages gather once a year on an open space to celebrate the New Year signaled by the summer solstice (Romanova and Ignat'eva 2012). This truly impressive ritual lasts the whole night to finally culminate with the sunrise. Awaiting the sun, people take off their shoes to be closer to nature and raise their hands towards the sun appearing over the horizon (fig. 10). They believe that at this particular moment the power of the sun can be captured and absorbed into the individual body, thus securing the well-being of the person and entire community for the following year.

Rock images of shamans with drums then possibly code complex symbolic meanings, which we can only imagine as studding ethnographically documented beliefs and rituals. These data shed further light on the symbolism of the shamanic drum (fig. 11). The drum was indeed a very powerful instrument and was directly linked

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