The circle motives: challenges in Colchian decorative repertoire
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https://doi.org/10.52340/gmg2023.01.018Keywords:
Circle motive, Faith, Pagan symbol, Colchian decorative repertoireAbstract
Decorative implications are way of understanding practice and faith of population of Colchis. In this context the paper aims to examine the circle decorative motives as matter of faith that reasonably considers number of local objects noted from different regions. By providing five distinctive compositions highlights connections of western lifestyle with eastern logic, based on cultural and cross-cultural approaches. That - in one hand, acknowledges the need of development of conceptual framework to build comparative dimension. In other hand, it aims to open new discussions on ancient symbolic signs giving an understanding of pagan symbolic language and emergences of whether its development or resistance. That seeks to discover nuances of mind shift ‘inside’ object function and decoration by asking the question why this motifs matters?
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