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This paper concerns the iconographic motif of the ‘luminous’ or ‘whirling’ disc, which remains almost unknown not merely to general audience of byzantinists but to many art historians. Until recently the origins of this motif of this motif was connected with the specific practice of the Sinai monastery . In the present paper a new interpretation is proposed, I argue that the Luminous disc gives a key for the understanding of the entire sacred space, going back to the early Byzantine ideas of the Whirling Church