CULTURAL HERITAGE: - Macedonian Information Centre

7 - nade Proeva
Mikro Karabournu near Thessaloniki 8 , Pella, Amphipolis etc. (see map).
Unfortunately, there are still scholars who believe that this funerary cult
in Macedonia is of Egyptian origin. There are scientists who believe that
such covering of the body with gold leaves was taken over to Macedonia
from Egypt via Crete, so they connect it with the legend of Minos and his
search for Daedalus, or for his son Glaucias. However, they are not taking
into consideration the huge chronological distances, which is not possible
to be explained. So, the most logical and therefore the most acceptable
explanation is the one of a convergence. This means that the people living
on distant territories, for which we are sure that had no mutual contacts
at all, came to identical or similar solutions and answers for similar or
completely identical needs and issues. So, in Egypt, the bodies of the
richest and the most powerful people, i.e. the pharaohs, were covered with
gold masks. In Macedonia, and not only in the Ohrid region, the bodies of
the most distinguished members of the communities, i.e. the leaders, were
covered with gold. These were local rulers from the VI and V century B.C.,
the period before the state had been united by the most powerful dynasty
8 ΣΙΝΔΟΣ, ΚΑΤΑΛΟΓΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΕΚΘΕΣΗΣ ΑΡΞΑΙΟΛΟΓΙΚΟ ΜΟΥΣΕΙΟ
ΩΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗΣ, ΑΘΗΝΑΙ, 985.