DECAPITATION AND PRUSSIAN SACRIFICIAL BOWLS
The historical digression presented in the article represents the genesis of the idea of the cult bowl, originally made from the skull of the sacrificial person, then, repeating in shape and pattern parietal lobes, molded from clay, in the early Middle Ages replaced by bronze. The semantics of such a spherical container of the sacrificial (?) Drink reflects the Scandinavian legend of Mimir, which says: “... the skull of the cold Turs' became sky...”. Most likely, the inhabitants of the southeastern Baltic from the Neolithic Age perceived the human skull as an analogue of the celestial firmament, through which it was possible to establish a connection between this and the Other worlds. Special attention should be paid to the fact that the population of the western edge of the Baltic world, traditionally known for the conservatism of its views in various spheres of life, used for religious purposes vessels of hemispherical shape (from the parietal lobe to the cup-kauszele) for three and a half millennia, and different social systems of society.