Popular Conceptions, Religious Beliefs and Rites of the Asiatic Eskimoes

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Introduction 13
4. Antal Reguly 17
5. Seite Cult and Drum Magic of the Lapps 27
6. Survivals of Totemism in the Hungarian táltos Tradition 41
7. The Hungarian Shaman's Technique of Trance Induction 53
8. Some Observances and Customs of the Mansi (Voguls) in Connection with Childbirth 77
9. Two Purification Rites in the Bear Cult of the Ob-Ugrians 85
10. On Some Ancient Anthropomorphic Images from West Siberia 93
11. Khanty (Ostyak) Sheds for Sacrificial Objects 103
12. An Ostyak Tale from M.A. Castrén's Manuscripts 107
13. On the Trail of Ostyak (Khanty) Mythical Songs 113
14. Funeral Rites among the Enets (Yenisei Samoyeds) 123
15. On Some Problems of Versification in Samoyed Shamanistic Songs 125
16. How Sereptie Djaruoskin of the Nganasans (Tavgi Samoyeds) Became a Shaman 137
17. The Classification of Samoyed Shamans 147
18. The Cult of Bear among the Ket (Yenisei Ostyaks) 175
19. Survivals of Fotemism in the Ancestor Cult of the Kazan Tatars 193
20. Shamans' Drums of Altaic Ethnic Groups 205
21. The Protection of Children among the Shors 235
22. The Problem of the Ethnic Homogeneity of Tofa (Karagas) Shamanism 239
23. The Tuvan (Soyot) Shaman's Drum and the Ceremony of its 'Enlivening' 331
24. The Acquisition of Shamanistic Ability among the Evenki (Tungus) 339
25. Shamanistic Songs of the Evenki (Tungus) 351
26. A Nanai (Gold) Tale about the Fortieth Brother and His Wife, a Washbear (Ursus lotor) 373
27. The Three-Grade Amulets among the Nanai (Golds) 387
28. Features of the Ancient Religious Rites and Taboos of the Nivkhi (Gilyaks) 407
29. Remarks on Nivkhi (Gilyak) Proper Names (Anthroponyms) 423
30. Popular Conceptions, Religious Beliefs and Rites of the Asiatic Eskimoes 433
31. The Preservation of Animal Bones in the Hunting- Rites of Some North-Eurasian Peoples 451
32. Mother Cult in Siberia 459
33. About the Alt of the Ancient Tribes of the Lower Tomi 479
34. Two Asiatic Sidereal Names 485
35. Abbreviations 497