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Originally Posted by eezi-ulgen
Hiimori, no doubt...
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Hiimori is a Mongolian word, the equivalent in Asian/Siberian Turkic I trust is “Tulpar”:
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In Finno-Ugric mythology Shaman’s most usual ‘animal-spirit-helpers’ were the
ginormous Eagle, a
Horse of/from Hiisi (Hiisi often meaning ‘the spirit of a place’, a place of Hiisi – a ‘power place’), but here the “Hii” word may or may not be a coincidence. … and thirdly to add a Shaman’s helper the
‘black dog’.
So, one doesn’t have to switch from Uralic shamanism to Altaic tengrism and go all the way to Mongolia to find the same or similar symbolism. However, among the Mongols and Turks, this imagery is still very much ‘alive’ in the collective subconscious.
Western Saami – I don’t know …?
Seems like for so many centuries they had been cut off from Siberian influences.
There is the
“White Reindeer”, but I thought it was more like a good omen for the reindeer herders – like the
“White Buffalo Calf” is for Amerinds.