Article,
Settling Discovery Circumstances, Dating and Utilization of the Tartaria Tablets
Acta Terrae Septemcastrensis Journal, Proceedings of the International Colloquium: The Carpathian Basin and its Role in the Neolithisation of the Balkan Peninsula, (2008)
Abstract
In conclusion on this point, the social life of the inscribed tablets and the other cultic artifacts has two phases: before and after the dead of Milady T?rt?ria. With regards to the first phase, in the present article we advanced some hypothesis regarding the cultic inventory with correlate liturgies and sovereign mysteries among them we pointed out the presence of speaking or singing figurines. We also observed that only the tablets are entire and interred as complete items, while all the other cultic objects have been submitted to an intentional and methodical breaking procedure and deposited as incomplete items. In a process that transforms matter into being, it is possible that some figurines were manufactured at the time of Milady T?rt?ria?s death and were used in rituals to represent the newly dead and then broken and sacrificed tying the living into the power of the neo-ancestor and by doing so asserting a claim of continuity and belongings. Besides some artifacts might have been surrounded by taboos and other might have been employed in rituals that nowadays are considered of "black magic". These occurrences pose new questions about the identity of the buried person and about the possible connections with the tablets and their signs.
