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A Study on World tree ornament from the Khazar burial of the Eurasian steppe in the European part of Russia

lee ji eun 1 Vdovchenkov Evgeny 2

1동아대학교
2러시아 Southern Federal Univerity

Candidate

ABSTRACT

It is known that the idea of the World tree is distributed in the Eurasian steppe including Korea. From the burial No.2 of the 6th Kastyrysky barrows were found the bone case with the simple geometric patter of tree. On the bone case it was engraved the schematized trees and birds, and the trees are connected to the upper and lower pattern tape. So it can be assumed that it is related to the idea of the World tree which connects the three worlds : heaven-ground-underground. Because it was found the women skeleton with the bone case, eye beads and iron disk, so it maybe possible to suppose that person buried in this grave might be symbolic meaning and religious role. Due to there are some archaeological cases of evidence about the connection between world tree and female, it was allowed to guess the idea of the World tree appeared not late than 1st century BC and the related tradition to the World tree was continued until 9th century AD by maternal lineage in this area.

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