Fragments of Lappish Mythology
Author : Lars Levi Laestadius
Publisher : Beaverton, Ont. : Aspasia Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 20,75 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Mythology Of The Sámi
Author : Niina Niskanen
Publisher : Niina Niskanen
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 22,95 MB
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN :
Book Description
Step into a magical journey to learn about Sámi mythology and folklore. Be amazed by these beautiful stories, the worship of the reindeer spirit, the northern lights, the deer that holds the sun in its antlers and gods and goddesses that brought the light, thunder and snow with them. The Sàmi are the indigenous people of Scandinavia. Residing in four countries. Lapland of Finland, Sweden, Norway and the Kola Peninsula in Russia. Learn about the connections between Sámi and Scandinavian mythology and Disney's Frozen II, which was made in collaboration with the representatives from Sámi nations. We will also dive into gender roles, motherhood and ancestral beliefs. Are you interested in myths and legends from Lapland? This book is for everyone who are interested to learn about the mythology of the Sámi and the history of the Sámi spirituality. You can also expect guidance for personal shamanic practice and how to implement practices shared in this book in your every day life. There is also a section about Shaman drums and Shaman drum patterns in Scandinavia. Illustrated with enchanting paintings from the author, the mythology of the Sámi is a treasure for anyone who loves to step into the world of magical folktales. Niina Niskanen is a Finnish artist and folklorist known by her online name "Fairychamber". Niina is a YouTuber and a podcaster and she is known for her vivid illustrations and storytelling. One of her speciality is to research the portrayal of mythology and folkore in pop culture.
More Than Mythology
Author : Catharina Raudvere
Publisher : Nordic Academic Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 13,21 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 918550971X
Book Description
The religion of the Viking Age is conventionally identified through its mythology: the ambiguous character Odin, the forceful Thor, and the end of the world approaching in Ragnarök. But pre-Christian religion consisted of so much more than mythic imagery and legends, and lingered for long in folk tradition. Studying religion of the North with an interdisciplinary approach is exceptionally fruitful, in both empirical and theoretical terms, and in this book a group of distinguished scholars widen the interpretative scope on religious life among the pre-Christian Scandinavian people. The authors shed new light on topics such as rituals, gender relations, social hierarchies, and inter-regional contacts between the Nordic tradition and the Sami and Finnish regions. The contributions add to a more complex view of the pre-Christian religion of Scandinavia, with relevant new questions about the material and a broad analysis of religion as a cultural expression.
Inari Sámi Folklore
Author : August V. Koskimies
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 25,36 MB
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0299319008
Book Description
A rich multivoiced anthology of folktales, legends, joik songs, proverbs, riddles, and other verbal art, this is the most comprehensive collection of Sámi oral tradition available in English to date. Collected by August V. Koskimies and Toivo I. Itkonen in the 1880s from nearly two dozen storytellers from the arctic Aanaar (Inari) region of northeast Finland, the material reveals a complex web of social relations that existed both inside and far beyond the community. First published in 1918 only in the Aanaar Sámi language and in Finnish, this anthology is now available in a centennial English-language edition for a global readership. Translator Tim Frandy has added biographies of the storytellers, maps and period photos, annotations, and a glossary. In headnotes that contextualize the stories, he explains such underlying themes as Aanaar conflicts with neighboring Sámi and Finnish communities, the collapse of the wild reindeer populations less than a century before, and the pre-Christian past in Aanaar. He introduces us to the bawdy humor of Antti Kitti, the didacticism of Iisakki Mannermaa, and the feminist leanings of Juho Petteri Lusmaniemi, emphasizing that folktales and proverbs are rooted in the experiences of individuals who are links in a living tradition.
Colonial Entanglements and the Medieval Nordic World
Author : Cordelia Heß, Solveig Marie Wang, Erik Wolf
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 17,72 MB
Release : 2025-08-19
Category :
ISBN : 3111386759
Book Description
The Sámi Narrative Tradition
Author : Jens-Ivar Nergård
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 17,27 MB
Release : 2021-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1000472701
Book Description
This book sets out to document and analyse the Sámi narrative tradition. It considers the worldviews inherent in the narratives and links them to traditional cosmology and other cultural expressions (such as joik and duodji). The chapters address a variety of issues, including care for children, the perception of nature, disputes over land and natural resources, local justice, the spiritual world of everyday life, and Læstadianism. Sketching Sámi history and the cultural context of storytelling, Nergård also considers the modern challenge for the narrative tradition. Drawing on long-term fieldwork and research, the volume is valuable reading for Indigenous studies and disciplines such as anthropology.
German Representations of the Far North (17th-19th Centuries)
Author : Jan Borm
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,58 MB
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 152756276X
Book Description
German travellers, explorers, missionaries and scholars produced significant new knowledge about the Arctic in Europe and elsewhere from the 17th until the 19th century. However, until now, no English-language study or collective volume has been dedicated to their representations of the Arctic. Possibly due to linguistic barriers, this corpus has not been sufficiently taken into account in transnational and circumpolar approaches to the fast-growing field of Arctic Studies. This volume serves to heighten awareness about the importance of these writings in view of the history of the Far North. The chapters gathered here offer critical readings of manuscripts and publications, including travelogues, natural histories of the Arctic, newspaper articles and scholarly texts based on first-hand observations, as well as works of fiction. The sources are considered in their historical context, as political, religious, social, economic and cultural aspects are discussed in relation to discourses about the Arctic in general. The volume opens with a spirited preface by Professor Jean Malaurie, France’s most distinguished Arctic specialist and author of The Last Kings of Thule (1955).
Nordic Mythologies: Interpretations, Intersections, and Institutions
Author : Timothy R. Tangherlini
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 34,63 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Education
ISBN : 0692328866
Book Description
A collection of essays by leading scholars of Nordic Mythology.
Theorizing Religions Past
Author : Harvey Whitehouse
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 26,65 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780759106215
Book Description
A collection of archaeologists and historians examine the modes of religiosity theory for its usefulness in explaining the origins and history of religions.
The Woman Who Married the Bear
Author : Barbara Alice Mann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 44,47 MB
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0197655440
Book Description
Stories of the primordial woman who married a bear, appear in matriarchal traditions across the global North from Indigenous North America and Scandinavia to Russia and Korea. In The Woman Who Married the Bear, authors Barbara Alice Mann, a scholar of Indigenous American culture, and Kaarina Kailo, who specializes in the cultures of Northern Europe, join forces to examine these Woman-Bear stories, their common elements, and their meanings in the context of matriarchal culture. The authors reach back 35,000 years to tease out different threads of Indigenous Woman-Bear traditions, using the lens of bear spirituality to uncover the ancient matriarchies found in rock art, caves, ceremonies, rituals, and traditions. Across cultures, in the earliest known traditions, women and bears are shown to collaborate through star configurations and winter cave-dwelling, symbolized by the spring awakening from hibernation followed by the birth of "cubs." By the Bronze Age, however, the story of the Woman-Bear marriage had changed: it had become a hunting tale, refocused on the male hunter. Throughout the book, Mann and Kailo offer interpretations of this earliest known Bear religion in both its original and its later forms. Together, they uncover the maternal cultural symbolism behind the bear marriage and the Original Instructions given by Bear to Woman on sustainable ecology and lifeways free of patriarchy and social stratification.
