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K čemiu je dobrý modrý kůň?

Title in English For what is the blue horse good?
Authors

KLONTZA Věra NEVĚČNÁ Romilda

Year of publication 2022
Type Popularization text
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Description In antiquity, the horse was an animal that had many functions in the cosmological ideas of the people of that time. One of the main functions was the transfer or escort of the dead to the other world, to the land of the dead. In both Bronze Age Crete and Archaic Etruria, it was blue horses that carried out this transmission.
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