English: Elaborated version of the "Hands of God", used in Slavic Rodnovery (Native Faith).
Representation of a design found on a funerary urn of the Przeworsk culture (central Poland), ca. 2nd century AD.
The urn was found in a cremation cemetery in Biala near Lódz.
In Nazi-occupied Poland, a representation of the urn was made the new coat of arms of Lódz (renamed Litzmannstadt).
Literature:
Andrej Mikolajczyk, "Didactic presentations of the past: some retrospective considerations in relation to the Archaeological and Ethnographical Museum, Lódz, Poland". In: Gathercole; Lowenthal (eds.). The Politics of the Past (1990).
Archaeologia Polona, Volume 42, 2004. pp. 302-303.
Polski: Symbol z naczynia kultowego z Białej k/Łodzi
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