The image of the universe in the folklore of the Nenets
Systematic and phenomenological analysis
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The book examines folklore materials, such as examples of epics (syudbabts, syudbabtsarka, yarabts, yarabtsarka, khynabts and lakhanako), both sung and chanted (performed in recitative form), gathered on the territory of the contemporary Nenets, Yamalo-Nenets, Taimyr (Dolgan-Nenets) Autonomous Okrugs and of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug – Yugra. The analysis of the folklore publications from different years, and also of the author’s personal field notes, is done in accordance with real worldview beliefs of the profane world and the knowledge of the people from the circle of the “dedicated” and the “initiated” (the shamans and those persons close to them). The research focuses on eliciting the picture of the world, the descriptions of the cosmos and its inhabitants, represented in folklore on the one hand, and in the worldview of our contemporaries on the other.
