20-24 septembrie 2009 - Biblioteca Metropolitana Bucuresti

506 Mihály Dobrovitsof a kind of human sacrifice amongst the old Central Asian peoples.The tower – or any place made high on purpose – must be a reminiscenceof this ancient system of beliefs. On the other hand, we cannot accept thoseviews, what tries to connect this legend with the ancient Greek myth on thebirth of Perseus, conceived by Danaë from Zeus in an underground coppercellar.We can also add that the legend about Attila must have had an Orientalorigin. The Kao-ch'ê were a member of the large T'ieh-lê confederation. Apart of this confederacy later formed the Ogur peoples. After the collapseof the Bulgar Khaganate on the Kuban a part of its peoples did reachthe Pentapolis of Ravenna, where some archaeological evidences showtheir presence, and another part of them became a re founder of the AvarKhaganate on the Danube. Therefore, we can accept that the Venetianlegend must be much closer to an Old Turkic original than to any Westernanalogous.