The article discusses the mythic landscapes and ways of moving in them as reflected in Nenets oral poetry. The starting point for the article is the idea of a mythological corpus, within which the understanding and knowledge of the Otherworld is produced and renewed in a community. The notes representing the genres of syudbabts (epic poetry) and sambadabts (shamanistic ritual poetry), written down by M. A. Castrén and Toivo Lehtisalo, are used as the research material of the article. The article shows that the otherworldly landscapes in epic poetry are based on the Nenets everyday nomadic landscapes and long journeys in them. The shamanistic poetry, on the other hand, concentrates on the close sacred places of the community. In both genres ...
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Laulut ja kirjoitukset: suullinen ja kirjallinen kulttuuri uuden ajan alun Suomessa (Songs and writi...
This paper explores experiences shared by the first generation which learned to write in the 19th ce...
The Foregrounding of Language as a Feature of Literary Non¬sense in Kari Hotakainen’s Children’s Boo...
This article investigates ague (malaria) in Finnish-Karelian belief legends. The author examines the...
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The article examines personal experience narratives written by authors who took part in a public wri...
Variations of Freedom: Naturalism and Existentialism in Maria Jotuni’s novella Arkielämää This arti...
Summary : Natural myths and artificial myths : the structure of myths in today's society
The article analyses one poem, compiled by Elias Lönnrot for the lyrical collection Kanteletar (1949...
In the Carousel of Body and Mind. Experientiality in Kati Kovács’ Graphic Narrative Carousel The art...
”sinnepä lapseni saatan - dit skall jag leda mitt barn”. About ambivalence in the poetry of Mirjam T...
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The Material Operation of Language in Raisa Marjamäki’s Ei kenenkään laituri In my article I scrut...
The article examines how Finnish-speaking male folk writers wrote about their adulterine background....
The Kalevala metre is an old poetic idiom of Finnic oral cultures. It has been estimated that the me...
Laulut ja kirjoitukset: suullinen ja kirjallinen kulttuuri uuden ajan alun Suomessa (Songs and writi...
This paper explores experiences shared by the first generation which learned to write in the 19th ce...
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