Saulės ir Mėnulio simbolika baltų pasaulėžiūroje

ENIn the Lithuanian riddles celestial bodies are often compared to round objects, such as fruit, food-stuffs and dishes. The simple appearance of symbolic images was determined by the visible round shape of celestial bodies. The groups of little artificial pits, found on the surface of paleolithic articles and stones in Lithuania, Latvia and generally in Europe and Asia, were considered the most ordinary astral symbols. The articles having a round shape with a point in the centre are related to the Sun symbology. The Sun symbols of such a shape are the disks made of stone, amber, more rarely of bone, dated as far back as the neolithic age and found in Lithuania, Mažoji (Little) Lithuania, Latvia and Denmark. Slone or ceramic spindles, frequently found by archaeologists, can also be related to the Sun symbology. A circle with a point appeared as a symbol of the Sun after the attentive observation of the day-time body. This symbol represents the disk of it he Sun with its aureole. The aureole Of the Sun is a ring of 10-12 diameter of visual angle, which surrounds the Sun disk of 32 diameter. The blue sky itself is consireded to begin outside the boundaries of the aureole. During the attempts to somehow reveal the rays dispersing from the Sun disk, the primary symbol of the Sun had become more complicated, obtaining the shape of a magnificent wheel with a lot of spokes in the Old Iron Age.