Päike, kuu ja tähistaevas tšuktši mütoloogias ning taevakehade seostest ohverdamistega

• Main Author: Ülo Siimets
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Estonian
• Published: Eesti Kirjandusmuuseum 2005
• Subjects: Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology; GN301-674; Orion; Chukchi
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/470ba25f14f1424ca31472fe358dedd7

The article provides a short overview of the central Chukchi myths, concepts and beliefs concerning celestial bodies at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. The Chukchi starry sky is related to their main means of making a living, breeding wild reindeer. Chukchi are one of the few...