Siikala, Anna-Leena - Napolskikh, Vladimir - Hoppál Mihály (szerk.): Komi mythology - Encyclopaedia of Uralic mythologies 1. (Budapest, 2003)

К о (i) i (Т) ytf)oloc]y The Encyclopaedia of Uralic Mythologies is a descriptive and analytic compendium of the mythologies of the peoples speaking Uralic languages — from the Lapps in Northern Europe and up 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 and preserved their original religious and mythological traditions, where traces of primitive beliefs and archaic religious systems (e.g. shamanism) merge into ancient influences (e.g. the Indo- Iranian and Ancient Germanic) and into the later impacts of modern religions. Mythology - is understood in broad sense, as the world view, the language of the traditional culture, in all aspects: ; the history of study, the separate ethnic mythological systems in their origin and historical processes, the

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