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

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shamanic culture in Siberia. But the prehistoric rock art inclines us to suggest that the sky was venerated also in much older times, and was the aim of ritual journeys - not only symbolic ones, like in the case of historically documented Siberian shamans, but also real, as evidenced by the Saimaly-Tash petroglyphs in Kyrgyzstan, where prehistoric people climbed to the highest places. It is a hypothesis, but they really believed that the sun was more accessible there. Interestingly, recent research (Sansoni 2013) suggests that similar sun-like symbols in European rock art (in the Alps and Scandinavia), stand for a common mythological tradition, which was spread in the Bronze Age from Europe to Central Asia.

This text as well as photographs presented at the exhibit result from the research project "Prehistory of Siberian Shamanism in the Light of Rock Art" DEC - 2011/01/B/HS3/02140 funded by the National Science Centre, Poland.

Author of the photographs: Andrzej Rozwadowski

Kezükben napszerű formát tartó emberi alakok.

Szaimali-Tas, Kirgizisztán.

Human figures appear to hold sun-like forms in their hands, Saimaly-Tash.

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