Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Stećci Medieval Tombstone Graveyards' has mentioned 'Deer' in the following places:
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Figural images include processions of deer, horse, dancing the kolo, hunting, chivalric tournaments, and, most famously, the image of the man with his right hand raised, perhaps in a gesture of fealty. | WIKI |
[48] Alojz Benac noted that the displays of a sole horse with a snake, as well a sole deer with a bird, symbolize the soul of the deceased going to the otherworld, which representations are resembling those found on Iapydes artefacts. | WIKI |
The sacral motif of deer is considered to be of Paleo-Balkan and pre-Christian origin. | WIKI |
Of all the animals, the deer is the most represented, and mostly is found on stexc4x87ci in Herzegovina. | WIKI |
[51] According to Dragoslav Srejovixc4x87, the spread of Christianity did not cause the disappearance of old cult and belief in sacred deer. | WIKI |
[43] Historian xc5xa0efik Bexc5xa1lagixc4x87 synthesized the representations of deer: sometimes accompanied by a bird (often on the back or horns), cross or lilium, frequently are shown series of deer or doe, as well with a bow and arrow, dog and hunter(s) with a spear or sword (often on a horse). | WIKI |
It is displayed in hunting scenes, as well some kolo processions led by a man who is riding a deer. | WIKI |
[53] There scenes where deer calmly approach the hunter, or deer with enormous size and sparse horns. | WIKI |
[45] Most of the depictions of "deer hunting" are facing west, which had the symbolic meaning for death and the otherworld. | WIKI |
In the numerous hunting scenes, in only one a deer is wounded (the stexc4x87ak has some anomalies), indicating an unrealistic meaning. | WIKI |
In the Roman and Parthian-Sasanian art, hunted animals are mortally wounded, and the deer is only one of many, while on stexc4x87ci is the only hunted animal. | WIKI |
The motifs of kolo (in total 132[55]) procession along with a deer, and its specific direction of dancing, although not always easily identifiable, show it is a mortal dance compared to cheerful dance. | WIKI |
In Eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina so-called Ljeljenovo kolo,[nb 2] with ljeljen local name for jelen (deer) implying jelenovo kolo, is danced by making the gate of the raised hand and ringleader of these gates tries to pull all kolo dancers through them until the kolo is entangled, after that, playing in the opposite direction, until the kolo is unravelled. | WIKI |