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The Sami religion differs somewhat between regions and tribes. Although the deities are similar, their names vary between regions. The deities also overlap: in one region, one deity can appear as several separate deities, and in another region, several deities can be united in to just a few.
Sami noaidi with a meavrresgárri drum used for runic divination.Illustration printed from copperplates by O.H. von Lode, after drawings made by Knud Leem (1767). A noaidi (Northern Sami: noaidi, Lule Sami: noajdde, Pite Sami: nåjjde, Southern Sami: nåejttie, Skolt Sami: nåidd, Kildin Sami: нуэййт / но̄ййт, Ter Sami: ныэййтӭ) is a shaman of the Sami people in the Nordic ...
In the Kingdoms of Denmark-Norway, the Sami religion was banned on pain of death as witchcraft. During the 17th-century, the persecution of the followers of Sami religion were more intensely persecuted than before by Christian missionaries, and several Sami were persecuted for sorcery because they practiced the Sami religion. [2]
Lars Nilsson (died 1693) was a Sami who was burned at the stake [1] for being a follower of the old Sami religion in Arjeplog [2] in Sweden during the time of the Christianization of the Sámi people.
Depiction of Horagalles from a Sami shaman drum found in Norway. The drum symbols were copied by the Christian priest Thomas von Westen in the 18th century. [8] The two hammers of the thunder god depicted as a blue cross on a late 18th-century shaman drum from Porsanger Municipality, Western Finnmark, Norway, described by the Christian missionary Knud Leem.
Quiwe Baarsen (died 1627), Norwegian Sámi shaman; Astrid Båhl (born 1959), Norwegian Sámi artist, designed the Sami flag; Samuel Balto (1861–1921), Norwegian Sámi director; Katarina Barruk (born 1994), Swedish Sámi singer who performs in the Ume Sami language; Ellen-Sylvia Blind (1925–2009), Swedish Sámi writer
The drum of Anders Paulsen (left) and the Bindal drum (right) represent variations in Sami drums, their shape, decoration and history. Paulsen's drum was confiscated in Vadsø in 1691, while the Bindal drum was bought by a museum official in 1925; Vadsø Municipality and Bindal Municipality being in opposite corners of the Sami world. Paulsens ...
The uniqueness of the Sami gene pool has made it one of the most extensively studied genetic populations in the world. The most frequent Sami MtDNA (female) haplotype is U5b1b1 comprising nearly half of all haplotypes, with type V in around the same quantities, with some minor D, H and Z. [10]