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• Table of contents: Saami Pre-Christian world view, mythology and folklore
  #OHJAUS [[Table of contents: Traditional spiritualism and oral tradition]]
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• The underground beings
  ...e western Saami called them {{Artikkelilinkki|1074|<i>gufihtar}}, ulda</i> and <i>kadnihah</i>. The first two of these names are Scandinavian loan words: ...|chanting}}, they wore the Saami traditional dress and they esteemed order and good behaviour. The tradition describes the earth spirits as some kind of i
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• The thunder god
  ...th benevolent and malevolent, and sacrifices were made to appease his fury and ensure his good will. The shaman ({{Artikkelilinkki|1051|Shamanism}}) was t ...laming arrow, the world will be plunged into chaos, the heavens will fall, and the whole earth will be enveloped in a conflagration.</P>
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• Bárbmu, wintering place of migration birds
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• Shamanism
  ...njoyed by the shamans was not dependent on their sex but on what they knew and remembered. Among the Saami, however, shamanism seems to have been a male i ...t that the phenomenon is found among the primitive peoples of both the Old and the New Worlds.</P>
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• Pre-Christian gods
  ...ents the knowledge of the shamans, the religious specialists of the Saami, and to what extent it is a reflection of the collective tradition, the views of ...ted when the Saami came into contact with the Orthodox religion. Christian and pre-Christian features probably coalesced to create a syncretic figure of a
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• The death and the dead ones
  |sivun nimi=The death and the dead ones ...its who longed for their nearest ones ({{Artikkelilinkki|1051|Shamanism}}) and as souls displaced because of a mysterious destructive → supernatural pow
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• The sacred
  ...nting peoples of the north, however, the sacred and the profane, this life and the hereafter, do not seem to be as sharply distinguished as the sacred is ...l, constituting a continuum rather than a sharp dichotomy with the profane and the mundane.</P>
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• The soul
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• The reindeer and the wild reindeer
  |sivun nimi=The reindeer and the wild reindeer ...vertheless, the wild reindeer plays an important role in some birth myths, and there is also an eschatological astral myth connected with it. </P>
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• Raimmahallan
  ...</I> was characterized by restlessness, anxiety, nightmares and lassitude, and in the worst cases it could be lethal. </P> ...rs to have prevailed some kind of cohesion between the souls of the living and those of the dead; the departed yearned for the living to join them. For ex
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• Sieidi (engl. ver.)
  ...tone. A <i>sieidi</i> can also be among other things a sacrificial spring, and <i>sieidi</i> poles were erected particularly in fishing grounds.</p> ...</i> (Samuel {{Artikkelilinkki|1644|Rheen}}: <i>kiedke-jubmel</i> rock god and <i>muorra-jubmel</i> wood god ). It has been suggested that it is derived f
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• Animals to take omens with
  ...s inevitably interpreted as working for an evil witch and thus as auguring and causing death. On the other hand, the Siberian jay was regarded as a lucky ...garment, his younger sister would die, if a girl s then her elder brother, and if a child s then the child itself was doomed.</P>
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• Werewolf
  ...asily crossed; for example, it was finer than the distinction between male and female roles. Although the Saami belief in werewolves is connected with the ...d to have a hard life, and it was generally despised. A werewolf was hated and regarded as seven times worse than an ordinary wolf. A person with magic sk
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• The wind god
  ...Saamiland. In the Skolt Saami tradition, he is called <i>Piõgg-oumaž</i> and in Kildin Saami <i>Piiŋk-olma</i>. The Tornio Saamis called him <i>Ilmaris ...806122035|Table of contents: Saami Pre-Christian world view, mythology and folklore}}<BR><BR>
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• Astral mythology
  |sivun nimi=Astral mythology |luokat=Saami Pre-Christian world view, mythology and folklore
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• Moon
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• Saami cosmology
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• Fragments of Lappish Mythology
  |sivun nimi="Fragments of Lappish Mythology" ...vinities dwelling in sacred places: passe ({{Artikkelilinkki|1068|bassi}}) and seita ({{Artikkelilinkki|1011|sieidi}}).</P>
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• Research History of the Lappology
  ...y begun to pay sufficient attention. During the Romantic period (1810 40), folklore material was often regarded as a document of natural religion (Lars Levi La ...entieth centuries; it charted the geographical shifts of folklore elements and the concomitant changes in them. Alongside this mainstream, which at the ti
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• The Dwafs and the Jotunis
  |sivun nimi=The Dwafs and the Jotunis ... were claimed to have inhabited the land before the invasions of the Geats and the Sveas (Scandinavian tribes), who are considered to be the forefathers o
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