Gold Orphic Book IV Century BC. donated by a Bulgarian from Ohrid, Bulgarian National Historical Museum.
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A religious stage, clay from V millennium BC. Clearly appears pictograms for the solar deity, meanders and the symbol from the “mirror hooks” on the chest of the anthropomorphic figures. Village mound, Ovcharovo, Targovishte.
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Imitation of a clay and anthropomorphic figure and a slab of written signs from Gradeshnitsa. Meanders on the figure can be seen clearly.
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Gold was discovered and treated for the first time around the world, in the Bulgarian lands during the Chalcolithic / Eneolith.
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Statue of Egyptian pharaoh with an elongated skull as Akhenaten, Pergamon Museum, Berlin. Some of the envoys were also depicted in the myths with similar skulls.
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Snake depicted on Egyptian parchment in Pergamon Museum. But snakes with similar curves are also found in Gradeshnitsa Culture(VI, V century BC). The snake curves look like meanders into a river course.
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Red figure ancient craftsmanship, which emphasis on the symbol of equal armed Cross with four points.
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Red figure crater with ancient scene. Below it is an eight point meandering stitch. Through every three meanders there are three equal armed crosses of 4 light and 5 dark squares. National Historical Museum.
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Here the mixture of symbols consists of 5 eight point meanders, separated by equal armed Cross of 4 light and 5 dark squares.
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Prehistorical anthropomorphic ritual figures with signs and pictograms of meanders, Historical Museum in Varna
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