Pásztor Emília (szerk.): Sámánizmus és természethit régen és ma - Bajai dolgozatok 23. (Baja, 2019)

Peter Toth: Rituális tevékenység Szlovákiában a neolitikum és rézkor idején

Ritual practices in the Neolithic and Eneolithic in Slovakia

Fig. 9. Human face representation on a vessel from Stúrovo, dated to the Zeliezovce group (after Pavúk 1994b, Taf. 30).

9. kép Emberi arc ábrázolása edényen, Stúrovo, Zseliz csoport (Pavúk 1994b, Taf. 30).

decoration elements could represent the mother, son, father and as a whole, they could symbolize a myth of genesis of the human. This mythical event could have preceded chthonic myths which were reflected later in certain old-Greek cults. Face amphora then might have served during some old family rituals (Pavlú 1966, 716; 2010, 604-605). The M-sign was also interpreted as universal woman principle (Ruttkay 1999, 9), water deity (Gimbutas 1989, 19) or a mask wear (Kuzma 1990, 447; Kovárník 2000, 186). Rare human depictions were found in Hurbanovo-Bohatá. They belong to relief sculptures on a vessel carination. Probably a pregnant woman with body decorations (necklace, two armbands, belt; fig. 10) is depicted on the first vessel fragment. Another fragment represents a lower part of a male body. These vessels are supposed to have an essential role during rituals whose central part was consumption of vessel content which was protected by the above-mentioned human representation (Bfezinová - Pazinová 2011, 94).

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