Etunimetön Frog
Biographic Data
| ID | 3452804 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Etunimetön Frog |
| GIVEN NAMES | Etunimetön |
| FAMILY NAME | Frog |
| SIGNATURE | FROG E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Echoes of Creation: Fractal Recursivity in Mythic Discourse
Fractal recursivity describes the fractal-like projection of a pattern and associated evaluative framework on different orders of scope. The concept has been developed for the analysis of semiotic ideologies, but is here applied to mythology as a sign system. It provides a new tool for approaching echoes of cosmogonic events on a localized scope. The phenomenon is illustrated through cases in both narrative and ritual from non-Christian Scandinav…
The girl with finches: A unique post-medieval burial in Tunel Wielki Cave, southern Poland
Cave burials are generally absent from historical periods in Europe. Consequently, the discovery of a post-medieval inhumation of a child buried with at least one bird head placed in the mouth in Tunel Wielki Cave (southern Poland) is an exceptional find. The aim of this paper is to discuss this unique burial based on multiproxy analyses conducted on the human and avian remains, including genetic and isotopic analyses as well as CT scans, radioca…
Constructing the Folk Cultural Sphere: Agency, Media and Authority
This paper explores the dynamics of agency, media andauthority in the maintenance and construction of the folk cultural sphere- that is, asociety's generalized perception and understanding of traditional culture. Thephenomenon is explored through a series of cases, organized chronologically, on:medieval manuscript technologies and Snorri Sturluson's Edda; seventeenth- and eighteenth-century written representationsof Sámi; a nineteenth-century liv…
Otherworlding: Othering Places and Spaces through Mythologization
The concept of otherworld is often conceived as a realm inhabited by supernatural beings or as a fantastic location where the possibilities of imagination are realities. It gets linked to concepts of otherness and the other, but the question of what makes something an otherworld generally remains unasked. Otherworlds are usually thought of as somehow outside of or beyond the empirical world, but the issue is not so simple
The Finnic Tetrameter – A Creolization of Poetic Form?
This article presents a new theory on the origins of the common Finnic tetrameter as a poetic form (also called the Kalevala-meter, regilaul meter, etc.). It argues that this verse form emerged as a creolization of the North Germanic alliterative verse form during a period of intensive language contacts, and that the Finnic ethnopoetic ecology made it isosyllabic. Previous theories have focused on the trochaic, tetrametric structure and viewed ot…
Myth
Myth has become a fundamental frame of reference for Western thinking. This paper explores the term and category “myth” from the perspective of folklore studies, with concern for the use of myth as a tool in research. The ways in which myth has been used in both academic and popular discourses are discussed. These are viewed in a historical perspective against the backdrop of the origins of the modern term. Attention is given to how historical pa…
Registers of Communication
T he present volume is the result of a multi-year initiative to bring to- gether scholars from both sides of the Atlantic into an interdisciplinary dialogue on register phenomena.ese efforts culminated in two Register Colloquia at the University of Helsinki.e first one, titled "Register: Intersections of Language, Context and Communication", met during -May .e second one, titled "Register II: Emergence, Change and Obsolescence", met during -May .…
Circum-Baltic Mythology? The Strange Case of the Theft of the Thunder-Instrument (ATu 1148b)
The myth of the Theft of the Thunder-Instrument (ATU 1148b) is found almost exclusively in the Circum-Baltic area. It is found among both Indo-European and Finno-Ugric cultures. This implies that it was adapted from one into the other, unless both assimilated it from a common cultural stratum. This paper surveys this mythological narrative tradition that is found in Baltic, Finnic, Germanic and Sámic cultures. It proposes that the tradition’s per…
Registers of Communication
T he present volume is the result of a multi-year initiative to bring to- gether scholars from both sides of the Atlantic into an interdisciplinary dialogue on register phenomena.ese efforts culminated in two Register Colloquia at the University of Helsinki.e first one, titled "Register: Intersections of Language, Context and Communication", met during -May .e second one, titled "Register II: Emergence, Change and Obsolescence", met during -May .…
Otherworlding: Othering Places and Spaces through Mythologization
The concept of otherworld is often conceived as a realm inhabited by supernatural beings or as a fantastic location where the possibilities of imagination are realities. It gets linked to concepts of otherness and the other, but the question of what makes something an otherworld generally remains unasked. Otherworlds are usually thought of as somehow outside of or beyond the empirical world, but the issue is not so simple
Circum-Baltic Mythology? The Strange Case of the Theft of the Thunder-Instrument (ATu 1148b)
The myth of the Theft of the Thunder-Instrument (ATU 1148b) is found almost exclusively in the Circum-Baltic area. It is found among both Indo-European and Finno-Ugric cultures. This implies that it was adapted from one into the other, unless both assimilated it from a common cultural stratum. This paper surveys this mythological narrative tradition that is found in Baltic, Finnic, Germanic and Sámic cultures. It proposes that the tradition’s per…
Registers of Communication
T he present volume is the result of a multi-year initiative to bring to- gether scholars from both sides of the Atlantic into an interdisciplinary dialogue on register phenomena.ese efforts culminated in two Register Colloquia at the University of Helsinki.e first one, titled "Register: Intersections of Language, Context and Communication", met during -May .e second one, titled "Register II: Emergence, Change and Obsolescence", met during -May .…
Myth
Myth has become a fundamental frame of reference for Western thinking. This paper explores the term and category “myth” from the perspective of folklore studies, with concern for the use of myth as a tool in research. The ways in which myth has been used in both academic and popular discourses are discussed. These are viewed in a historical perspective against the backdrop of the origins of the modern term. Attention is given to how historical pa…
The Finnic Tetrameter – A Creolization of Poetic Form?
This article presents a new theory on the origins of the common Finnic tetrameter as a poetic form (also called the Kalevala-meter, regilaul meter, etc.). It argues that this verse form emerged as a creolization of the North Germanic alliterative verse form during a period of intensive language contacts, and that the Finnic ethnopoetic ecology made it isosyllabic. Previous theories have focused on the trochaic, tetrametric structure and viewed ot…
Otherworlding: Othering Places and Spaces through Mythologization
The concept of otherworld is often conceived as a realm inhabited by supernatural beings or as a fantastic location where the possibilities of imagination are realities. It gets linked to concepts of otherness and the other, but the question of what makes something an otherworld generally remains unasked. Otherworlds are usually thought of as somehow outside of or beyond the empirical world, but the issue is not so simple
The girl with finches: A unique post-medieval burial in Tunel Wielki Cave, southern Poland
Cave burials are generally absent from historical periods in Europe. Consequently, the discovery of a post-medieval inhumation of a child buried with at least one bird head placed in the mouth in Tunel Wielki Cave (southern Poland) is an exceptional find. The aim of this paper is to discuss this unique burial based on multiproxy analyses conducted on the human and avian remains, including genetic and isotopic analyses as well as CT scans, radioca…
Constructing the Folk Cultural Sphere: Agency, Media and Authority
This paper explores the dynamics of agency, media andauthority in the maintenance and construction of the folk cultural sphere- that is, asociety's generalized perception and understanding of traditional culture. Thephenomenon is explored through a series of cases, organized chronologically, on:medieval manuscript technologies and Snorri Sturluson's Edda; seventeenth- and eighteenth-century written representationsof Sámi; a nineteenth-century liv…
Echoes of Creation: Fractal Recursivity in Mythic Discourse
Fractal recursivity describes the fractal-like projection of a pattern and associated evaluative framework on different orders of scope. The concept has been developed for the analysis of semiotic ideologies, but is here applied to mythology as a sign system. It provides a new tool for approaching echoes of cosmogonic events on a localized scope. The phenomenon is illustrated through cases in both narrative and ritual from non-Christian Scandinav…
History (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (3 works) · Mythology (3 works) · Geography (2 works)