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AllatRa by Anastasia Novykh
as well as clay medallions with cut marks (an ancient medallion in fact is a tamga). And
how informative artefacts, for example, of the Chebarkul culture (the southern part of
the Ural Mountains, now Chelyabinsk region, Russia) are!
As a matter of fact, the Urals region is very rich in symbols and signs. For instance, the
Urals petroglyphs (rock carvings) of the Mesolithic, Neolithic, and Bronze Ages are
priceless! Interestingly, they were mainly painted on rocks facing the water. And water,
as we know, symbolised another, spiritual world in the interpretation of the ancient
people. If birds were depicted, then in most cases they were water birds. And
traditionally, like with all the ancient peoples of the world, the spiritual Knowledge was
recorded in the form of geometric shapes (circles, polygons, waves, zigzags, diagonal
and direct (Greek) crosses, and rays) as well as anthropomorphic creatures, hoofed
animals that characterise mainly the four Aspects. But most importantly, with the human
figurines in the form of a "bug" (with arms set aside and legs bent), on whose heads
there were symbols of spiritual liberation or perfection (either the AllatRa sign or the
symbol of Allat, or several outgoing rays were depicted). I'm not even talking about the
ancient cultures of Siberia with their symbols and signs...
By the way, I discovered many interesting facts also from the studies of Eastern cultures
dating back to the 7th-6th millennium BCE, and not only in the Urals, but also in Asia
(in Near East and Central Asia). This, for example, is the Hacilar culture of “hunters and
gatherers” that existed almost nine thousand years ago. It is characterized by rich
paintings on house walls, tableware with graphic symbols dominated mainly by the solar
(sun, circular) and rhombic symbols.
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