Above: Ancient Hittite-Macedonian bronze and stone-incised (gravestone on the right) artifacts from the 15th to 7th-6th century BCE Macedonian Peninsula – bronze spiral-fibula and bronze Paionian Solar Disk in form of amulet on the left, Archaeological Museum of Macedonia Below: in the 10th century the double headed eagle was still a Macedonian Coat of Arms, during the brief medieval Macedonian kingdom of Samoil, which endured for almost 40 years
Next page: Hittite ritual "sun symbol" (2200-1000 BCE bronze artifacts)29, and the same geometrical design on a marble slab in the court of St. Demetrius church
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also commonly known today as “the flower of life”; most probably symbolizing the sun, or a two-dimensional bronze symbol-imitation of a pine cone from the tip of the Thyrsus, i.e. the Bacchic staff carried by Dionis and his Macedonic followers.
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