double-axe

Japanese: double-axe(英語表記)doubleaxe
double-axe

...Examples include the Danish Mesolithic, Swiss Neolithic, and New Guinea tribes. In addition, there are axes with a vertical axe blade on one end and a horizontal axe blade on the other end (Hungarian Bronze Age), and double axes with vertical axe blades on both ends. The latter is also famous as a battle axe (late Neolithic to Bronze Age in Europe), and was developed for ritual use in the Minoan civilization, where it was called a labrys and became a religious symbol.

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "double-axe" are listed below.

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Japanese:

…デンマーク中石器時代,スイス新石器時代,ニューギニア民族例)がある。さらに,斧には斧身の一端に縦斧の刃,他端に横斧の刃をそなえつけた縦横両用斧axe‐adze(ハンガリー青銅器時代),斧身の両端に縦斧の刃をつけた両頭斧(両頭縦斧double‐axe)がある。後者は戦闘用の斧(闘斧battle‐axe)としても名高く(ヨーロッパ新石器時代後期~青銅器時代),また,ミノス文明では祭儀用に発達してラブリスlabrysとよばれ,宗教上のシンボルとなった。…

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