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ASTRONOMICAL PRACTICES AND
RITUAL CALENDAR OF EURO-ASIAN
NOMADS
Nyssanbay M....
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ASTRONOMICAL PRACTICES AND
RITUAL CALENDAR OF EURO-ASIAN
NOMADS
Nyssanbay M. Bekbassar
While interpreting the tombstones and off-barrow (the term introduced by S. S. Sorokin) edifice of Euro-Asian nomads (deer-shaped
stones, stelai, stone monuments, barrow entrances with “mustache”,
etc.), investigators traditionally confine their study to describing
the ritual actions performed during the burial procedure or while
commemorating the deceased (Kiselev 1949: 307–308; Rykov 1936:
115–117; Spitsyn 1948: 158). In the opinion of many scholars, the
peculiarities of tomb layout, traces of abundant ritual sacrifice objects, traces of fire with fragments of cremated bones, and burials of
a whole horse’s trunk or parts of it, mostly skulls with vertebra and
hoofs, found on the territory where such monuments are located,
tes
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