Pásztor Emília (szerk.): Sámánizmus és természethit régen és ma - Bajai dolgozatok 23. (Baja, 2019)
Pásztor Emília: A bronzkori hidelmek és a természet kapcsolata a Kárpát-medencében
The Relationship of Bronze Age Beliefs and Nature in the Carpathian Basin Summary A prehistoric archaeologist should seek analogies in order to connect archaeological finds with social function, to imagine how many actual use a given object has had. However, the application of analogies has its own rules and limits. The most useful are the examples that come from similar ecological environments or such other cultural areas that, according to the archaeological data, prehistoric people had relation to. The lack of remains of temples, sacred buildings and traces of organized religion does not mean that shamanism was the only belief system in the Carpathian Basin during the Bronze Age. Based on archaeological findings, we cannot separate shamanism from other magico-religious activities. Therefore, we should try to trace the relationship of ancient people to the natural environment rather than to categorize the finds into a certain type of belief system. Siberian shamanism is not a good analogy to prehistoric beliefs because shamans or shamanism have presumably existed in prehistoric times. It is a good analogy because a shaman is the mediator for a belief system that may be similar to what existed in the Bronze Age. The existence of such beliefs and a person(s), who we should rather call as a spiritual mediator to avoid the use of the controversial word 'shaman', seems more likely based on the archaeological findings from the Bronze Age Carpathian Basin. Fig. 10. Snake-shaped gold jewelry ornamented with sun rays from the Bronze Age Sarvasszó treasure (Saräsau, Romania). 10. kép Napszimbólumos, kígyó alakú arany ékszerek a bronzkori Szarvasszó (Saräsau, Románia) kincsből. из
