Selkup mythology

PREFACE . . 9
INTRODUCTION BY THE EDITOR . . 13
BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA . . 15

THE SELKUP PEOPLE . . 19
Dialects of the Selkup Language . . 19
The Southern (Narym) Selkups . . 20
The Northern (Taz-Turukhan) Selkups . . 27

THE LITERATURE AND THE SOURCES OF SELKUP MYTHOLOGY AND FOLKLORE . . 38
The History of Collection and Research . . 38
  The History of the Study of Southern Selkup Folklore . . 38
  The History of the Collection of Northern Selkup Folklore and Mythology . . 43
  The Foreign Publication of Selkup Folklore Material . . 48
The Genre Classification of Selkup Texts . . 50

THE TRADITIONAL WORLD-VIEW AND RELIGIOUS AND MYTHOLOGICAL NOTIONS . . 54
The Southern Selkups . . 54
  Cosmogonic Myths . . 54
  Myths about the Creation of the World . . 55
  Anthropogenic and Ethnogonic Myths . . 56
  The Structure of the Universe . . 58
  Notions of the Soul . . 62
  Shamanism . . 65
The Northern Selkups . . 68
  Myths about the Origin of the World . . 69
  Anthropogenic Myths . . 72
  Ethnogonic Myths . . 73
  Mythological Notions about Animals . . 74
  Myths about the Origin of Vegetation and Geographical Objects . . 77
  The Modern Attitude of the Selkups to the Traditional Beliefs . . 78

ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF SELKUP MYTHOLOGY A-Z . . 83

APPENDIX 1
Southern Selkup Texts . . 269
Northern Selkup Texts . . 272

APPENDIX 2
The Archive of L. A. Varkovitskaya . . 277

ABBREVIATIONS . . 281
REFERENCES . . 283
INDEX . . 293
Selkup-English Glossary and Index . . 293
English-Selkup Glossary and Index . . 306
Siberian Dialect and Other Russian Terms . . 320