Funerary urn from Biała

The German historian Walter Kersten[4] published the vessel in 1944 in the journal Posener Jahrbuch für Vorgeschichte (Poznań Yearbook of Prehistory) because of the swastikas on it, where he discussed the pictograms on it.

He interpreted the drawings as a complex frieze depicting the solar procession and, based on an analysis of Germanic mythology, linked them with the cult of fertility.

However, in the publication Inventaria Archaeologica (1960), also authored by Koszańska, the drawing is presented in a "corrected" form: the upper part is rounded so that the whole has a phallic shape, and two points suggesting eyes or breasts are drawn.

[2] According to Konrad Jażdżewski, these drawings are pictographic signs that were supposed to record some event from the life of the deceased, as they depict a scene of deer hunters hunting.

This interpretation was first proposed by Lech Emfazy Stefański in his book Wyrocznia Słowiańska (Slavonic Oracle) published in 1993, as well as in the statute of the Native Polish Church.

According to him, the large central cross with arms ending in fingers (combs) is supposed to symbolise God Most High, as well as the universe and the balance that nature strives for.

Replica of an funerary urn on display in Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography in Łódź .
Picture of an urn from 1941 and the coat of arms of Litzmannstadt (occupied Łódź), based on the swastika from the urn. [ 1 ]
An funerary urn with the image of Hands of God on a 1942/1943 German medallion.
Coat of arms of Litzmannstadt (occupied Łódź ). Colors of the coat of arms correspond to those of the Litzmann family. [ 3 ]