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Kurgan stelae [a] or Balbals (Ukrainian: балбал, most probably from Turkic word balbal meaning "ancestor" or "grandfather" [3]) are anthropomorphic stone stelae, images cut from stone, installed atop, within or around kurgans (i.e. tumuli), in kurgan cemeteries, or in a double line extending from a kurgan.
In Philippine mythology, a Bal-Bal is an undead monster that steals corpses whether it is in a funeral or grave and feeds on them. It has a strong sense of smell for dead human bodies.
Aswang: bracket term for shape-shifting creatures that have a variety of forms, such as the blood-sucking vampire, the self-segmenting viscera sucker, the man-eating weredog, the vindictive or evil-eye witch, and the carrion-eating ghoul.
Balbal or bal-bal can refer to: Balbals or Kurgan stelae; Bal-Bal - in Philippine mythology, a Bal-Bal is an undead monster that steals corpses.
Works of sculpture have been crafted in Mongolia since prehistoric times. Bronze Age megaliths known as deer stones depicted deer in an ornamented setting. Statues of warriors, the Kurgan stelae, were created under Turkic rule from the 6th century CE, and later started to bear inscriptions in a phonetic script, the Orkhon script, which were deciphered only in the 1980s.
Since they would always wash (balbal, in the local dialect) their blood-stained bodies and weapons in the creek, the place and its adjacent areas came to be known as Balbalan. Since its violent history, Balbalan has become one of the most peaceful places in Kalinga as dramatized by the selection of one of its ethnic sub-groups, the Salegseg.
Minusinsk Regional Museum. The Minusinsk Regional Museum, also Museum of Local Lore in Minusinsk or Martyanov Museum, is a museum in the city of Minusinsk, Russia.It was created in 1877 by a chemist and collector Nickolai Martyanov, who had a collection of unique archeological finds discovered in the Minusinsk Hollow. [1]
Kipchak portrait in a 12th-century balbal in Luhansk. On the Kipchak steppe , a complex ethnic assimilation and consolidation process took place between the 11th and 13th centuries. [ 5 ] The western Kipchak tribes absorbed people of Oghuz , Pecheneg , ancient Bashkir , Bulgar and other origin; the eastern Kipchak merged with the Kimek , Karluk ...