From the Walls with the Motif of the Sun's Rays to the Solar Symbols on the Decoration of the Facades and Iron Gates Cover Image

A NAPSUGÁRMOTÍVUMOS FÜR-FALAKTÓL A HOMLOKZATI VAKOLATDÍSZEKBE, VASKAPUKRA MENTETT NAPJELEKIG
From the Walls with the Motif of the Sun's Rays to the Solar Symbols on the Decoration of the Facades and Iron Gates

Briefly about Modern Forms of Sun Symbol in Kanjiza

Author(s): Zoltán Valkay
Subject(s): Architecture, Local History / Microhistory
Published by: Fórum Könyvkiadó Intézet
Keywords: symbols; sunbeams; folk architecture; facade; sun motives; mortar; tradition

Summary/Abstract: The importance of solar symbols that play a key role in the decoration of street space in the national construction of Kanjiža and the coast of the Tisza River, their role in non-verbal communication, as well as their character of local color I see as a flourishing representation of the plains principle of the sun. The condensation of cosmological knowledge of the ancient sun cult, influenced by Baroque religiosity and its local forms that were influenced by Szeged sun gates is becoming weaker, but is being incorporated into ever firmer materials as abstract ornaments of facade architecture, as atavistic remains of symbolic but highly abstracted meanings on gates and idolatrous artificial stone pillars, in my opinion, exemplify the transmission of symbolic messages. Because the building environment is a mirror in which we can see ourselves, I find it extremely important to be able to bring awareness to and to read these symbols...

  • Issue Year: L/2020
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 119-127
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Hungarian