Religious Ideas of the Ket Samoyeds after Materials of K. Donner
The paper is based on the materials of K. Donner – a famous Finnish linguist and ethnographer, who travelled in Siberia in 1911-1913 and in 1914 years. The religious ideas of Selkup people living along the Ket river and its tributaries in the beginning of the 20th century have been studied and the paper presents an adapted translation of the chapter «Die Religion der Ketsamojeden» (The Religion of the Ket Samoyeds) of K. Donner’s book «Bei den Samojeden in Sibirien». The paper describes the ceremony of the sacrifice, the notions of the Selkups about the lower world and spirits living in it, the human soul and life beyond the grave. A special attention is drawn to the personality of shaman, who was a spiritual leader and medicine man for Selkups, and the shaman ceremony
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Issue: 4, 2007
Series of issue: Humanities (Philology)
Rubric: Indigenous Languages of Siberia
Pages: 70 — 76
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