The Nenets’ Sacred Places: The singing mountain Yanganya Pe

The cult of stones and mountains among the Nenets is very well developed and has a significant role in their culture. In the Polar Ural Mountains there are several sacred mountains that are especially revered by the Nenets. The Soviet ethnographer Lyudmila Khomich[1] wrote that it has many similarit...

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Published in:Nordicum-Mediterraneum
Main Author: Roza Laptander
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: The University of Akureyri 2022
Subjects:
nenets
cultural heritage
cultural preservation
peoples of the arctic
religion
sacred places
archeo
hisphilso
Arctic
sami
ural mountains
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.33112/nm.17.3.12
https://doaj.org/article/34d99cf932ea4bd1a4000a9bbb786457
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Summary:The cult of stones and mountains among the Nenets is very well developed and has a significant role in their culture. In the Polar Ural Mountains there are several sacred mountains that are especially revered by the Nenets. The Soviet ethnographer Lyudmila Khomich[1] wrote that it has many similarities with the same cults of mountains among the Sami people.

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