Fantastic Predator of Kalbak – Tash (High Altai Mountains): Göbekli Tepe Parallels

Abstract

Mountain Kalbak-Tash − it is a unique monument of rock art in High Altai Mountains. The aim of the research is to reveal the presence of traces «of the bridges of cultural contacts» between the West and the East of the ancient Eurasia on the example of analysis of the semantics of one fascinating rock art image of Kalbak-Tash: fantastic predators of syncretic nature. According to recent archaeological investigations the image of a fantastic predator appeared in the Neolithic Turkey. The appearance of the fantastic predator image found by the archaeologists on the one of Göbekly-Tepe temple columns let as assume that gradually over time this image has acquired both chthonic and astral features. Similar features have Kalbak-Tash and Okunev (Yenisei river basin) fantastic predators. It can be also assumed that the image of Fantastic predators has reached the territory of South Siberia through the Caucasus “bridge of contacts”. This “bridge of contacts” existed between the West and the East of Eurasia during the long period. Its existence reveals the cross-communization problem. Population of ancient Eurasia was bound by cultural contacts. The mythological image of fantastic predator acquired features of the «Lord of the Universe» in South Siberian culture of Bronze age. The image of the fantastic predator of syncretic nature appears alongside the image of a mythical hero in rock art of Altai (Kalbak-Tash).

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