Der uralte Hirsch- bzw. Rentierkult bei den Jenissejern im Lichte des Wortschatzes

• Authors: Heinrich Werner

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THE ANCIENT YENISEIAN DEER AND REINDEER CULT IN THE LIGHT OF THE VOCABULARY

• Languages of publication: DE

Abstracts

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The old Yeniseian deer and reindeer cult is not connected in any way to reindeer herding. There are interesting and far-reaching cultural parallels in the Turkic and Indo-European worlds, linked to the words for ‘deer (doe)’ and ‘fawn’. The cervid attributes of the Yeniseian shamans permit us to separate a cervid type of shamans in general. The word for ‘shaman’ itself can be connected to the word for ‘reindeer’, and thus derived eventually from the Yeniseian languages.

Keywords

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Yeniseian languages; Indo-European; shaman; etymology

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 16
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 141-150

Contributors

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Heinrich Werner

• Universität Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Str. 25, D-53105 Bonn