Hilarri

These funerary steles present a disc-shaped head facing the rising sun on a trapezoidal stand.

They belong to an old tradition throughout all of the Western Mediterranean, which includes parts of Europe and North Africa, but today they are mainly found in the Basque Country.

The most popular figures are : One Navarrese hilarri presents a kind of lauburu made of four walking legs.

Some more specific figures can be encountered as: They are all identified with Christ as the sun rising after Resurrection, evident also in Basque church symbols and the imagery of Loyola's Jesuit Order.

Others have seen connections to a prehistoric solar cult arriving with the Mauri or Jentillak and related to the Egyptian Horus, consort or manifestation of the Ishtar (the star) of Fertility among the desert and Sea People.