Komi Mythology

Description

The Encyclopedia of Uralic Mythologies is a descriptive and analytic compendium of the mythologies of the peoples speaking Uralic languages - from the Lapps in Northern Europe to the Selkups and Nganasans in Siberia. The peoples of the Uralic linguistic family, being the aborigines of the Eurasiatic North, survived a long and complicated history. They preserved their original religious and mythological traditions, where traces of primitive beliefs and archaic religious systems (e.g. shamanism) merge with ancient influences (e.g. the Indo-Iranian and Ancient Germanic) and into the later impacts of modern religions. The central part of this series is to be the explanatory and etymological dictionary of mythological terms of Uralic traditions. This volume has an index of mythological terms, a glossary, list of literature and an introduction devoted to the history of the given Uralian nations.