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Following the issue of Salt Mining and Salt Trading, The White Gold of Hallstatt reaches its spiritual climax in the form of Beliefs and Rituals.
In addition to the ability to create a rich and thriving culture based on the mining of salt, the people of the Hallstatt culture boasted other skills. The traces of those skills were discovered by mine operator Johann Georg Ramsauer in 1846, when he came across a burial ground near the Hallstatt salt mine. The valuable burial objects he uncovered are not only evidence of the prosperity and high social status of those buried there, but also of the religious and spiritual world of the Hallstatt culture. Displaying a high degree of technical expertise in their manufacture, the burial objects include elaborate bronze vessels containing food and drink that were intended to nourish the deceased on their journey to the afterlife. The ornate depictions of people with which they are often decorated include scenes of festivities as well as cremations. Waterfowl such as ducks and swans seem to play a special role. They were regarded as a symbol of the divine as, unlike humans at the time, they were able to move on land, in water and the air.
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