Pásztor Emília (szerk.): A fény régészete. A természetes fény szerepe az őskori ember életében - Bajai dolgozatok 20. (Baja, 2017)
P. Barna Judit: Fény a körben. A természetes fény és Közép-Európa legrégebbi monumentális építménye
— that artefacts and features related to rites concentrate on the district of the rondels (for Sormás-Török-földek see: P. Barna-Pásztor 2011) are archaeologically proven (Figs. 4, 6, 12-17, 23). A Neolithic rondel taken as a whole can be compared to the notion of the Cosmic Centre, at the same time mythological images of some of its structural elements (e.g. ditches, paths (gates), thresholds, etc...) can also be interpreted within the system of notions of the rites of passage (van Gennepp 2007). Summing all these up, rondels as communal and ritual scenes could have been localities of ritual activities concerning a larger community the layout of which resembles that of the most ancient sanctuaries which were all roofless structures, open towards the sky (Eliade 2014). The relation to the sky is easily and clearly recognisable in the sun orientation of the rondels. The colossal extent, the monumentality of the circular enclosures refers to communal use (Fig. 11), and the symbolism of their structural elements (ditch, gate, and threshold) evokes the class of material rites of passage (e.g. communal rites of admission, initiation). Remains of feasting, proven also by archaeological methods related to rondels, e.g. large amount of animal bones, depots of vessels, bucrania, are perhaps traces of ritual communal meals (Kalla-Raczky-V. Szabó 2013). The creation, alignment, and construction of rondels as sacred places must have been accompanied by rituals related to foundation and building in which the rising Sun played a decisive role. Gétye-Gyomgyáló-lejtős The case of this rondel (about 4800 BCE) is also a good example for the orientation towards the rising Sun. Due to its manageable size and simplicity it seemed to be an adequate ground for a reconstruction represented in a maquette (Fig. 24). This site has also been a proper model for reconstructing the aligning and step-by-step building process of a rondel- the main stages of which are shown in drawings mentioned above (Fig. 7-11). Owing to a magnetic survey and the Lengyel finds collected on the surface the existence of a Lengyeltype rondel was proven at the site. The ground-plan of the rondel is shown in a blue-yellow-red colour scale processed magnetic map (Fig. 25). It is a simple, oval circular enclosure, with four entries on it. The size of the rondel is about 95 x 115 metres which means that this rondel is medium sized. The deviation from the regular round design can be explained by the relief conditions since the fall of the eastern slope of the site is steep. The difference in the relief height is about 4 metres. The extremity of the orientation value of the eastern gateway of this rondel (56°, close to the value of the sunrise at midsummer solstice) compared to the general 51
