The Personal Rituals of the Finnic Peoples with Forest Trees
On the Basis of Two Examples
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3779218 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Arukask (0000-0002-7929-996X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 167-185 |
| Publication date | 2017-04-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropology & Archeology of Eurasia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1061-1959 • E-ISSN: 1558-092X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10611959.2017.1352307 |
| OpenAlex | W2771096482 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 5 |
The article examines communication with trees in Votian and Vepsian folk culture. Two cases are discussed when a person gathering mushrooms and berries in the forest has made sacrificial gifts in the form of produce to a tree to request a good mushroom and berry harvest or for good health. In the Votian case, persons who have gone missing in the forest are memorialized. Trees are regarded as not only a conversation partner or a mediator, but in a broader religious (cosmogonic) and ritual context as well. These incidents are significant for how they reflect the animistic worldview of the Finnic peoples. A discussion of Finnic ontology is invited, suggesting that the cultural type centered on the folk healer [the-one-who-knows] came to replace the shamanic cultural type latest in the Iron Age
Archaeology · Biology · Botany · Conversation · Epistemology · Ethnology · Mushroom · Ontology · Sociology · Anthropology · Communication · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · Historical and Archaeological Studies · History · Philosophy · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
| Citations per year | 0.86 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2023 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |