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Karelian petroglyphs appeared on the European coin
The Bank of Estonia issued a new coin with a face value of two euros, which depicts Karelian Petroglyphs, according to the bank’s website. The release of the coin is dedicated to the VIII World Congress of the Finno-Ugric peoples, which will open on June 16 in Tartu.
The coin depicts the cave paintings of Lake Onega. It is noted that the symbols of a hunter, an elk, waterfowl and sun form a symbolic circle of life of the Finno-Ugric peoples. The central figure is a waterfowl, since it is believed that modern and ancient Finno -Ugric peoples are the peoples of waterfowl. The Onega Petroglyphs are included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. The coin will go into circulation in August.
Earlier it was reported that the Association of Finno-Ugric Peoples of Russia officially refused to take part in the VIII World Congress. As the main reason, "the destructive and clearly politicized trends of the" World Congress, which uses the "Finno-Ugric map" as methods of pressure for the purposes of "ethnopolitical speculation" were called. As an example, the Russian Association was given by the report of the Estonian Euro -deputy, Katrin Sax, which contained "biased assessments" of the situation with ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities in Russia.
- Karelian Petroglyphs are a world monument of primitive art of the Neolithic era, one of the largest images in terms of the number of images and in the area of distribution of rock art complexes. They contain historical and cultural information about the life of primitive people in Northern Fenniscanda.
- Rock drawings in Karelia can be found in several places, but the White Sea and Onega Petroglyphs are most famous. Many drawings of the Lake Onega, who were knocked out on the rocks on the eastern shore in the middle of the 19th century, was discovered by a professor at the University of Tartu, Geologist Konstantin Grevingk.
- The Onega Petroglyphs were knocked out about 5-6 thousand years ago, when the territory of modern Karelia was only settled by primitive tribes. In 1934, a slab with the Petroglyphs of the Onega Lake from Cape Peri was transferred to the Hermitage . It carries 50 drawings on it, which experts define as an annual economic cycle.