I would like to think there were no horse sacrifices, but throughout Eurasia (among Uralics and Altaians) horses were sacrificed.
“This ritual was performed because it was believed that a sacrificed horse can carry the shaman to Heaven”.
In areas where there were no horses in Siberia, I trust reindeer was also sacrificed for the same reason.
Here a Turkic-Tengrism drum, with the Horse sacrifice:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ff/04...b6b26eb420.jpg
For the Western Saami, (at least)
“the horse was a feared and detested animal, probably because it was the preferred form of transportation of the Norsemen”.
“When Saami were converted to Catholicism and later on to Lutheranism, the concept of Rotaimo, a place similar to Christian Hell and Radienaimo, a place closer to the Christian idea of Heaven was created”.
Apparently.
(A bit like what happened to our
Hiisi. Originally meaning sacred localities and their spirits but with the arrival of Lutheranism they now became the places of demons).
See also
“The great Indo-European horse sacrifice” (whatever that meant?)
In the East, we at least had contacts with Dolgans (who are a mix of (Tungus) Evenk people and (Yakutians) Sakha. This shows up in some shared words and also some more recent Siberian dna (which Western Saami perhaps do not have?)
Dolgans are Turkic.
Curious also, where both of my Saami/Karelian admixed grandparents came from (now Russia), they had sacred stones, which were carved in images similar to Tengrist drums:
https://i.ibb.co/B2Q79Pc/kivi1.png
https://i.ibb.co/gr8dyb9/kivi2.png
Sakha Celestials:
Yuryung Aiyy Toyon
Uluu Toyon (the Sun)
Yuryung Aiyy = (the Moon)
Toyon = (head/leader)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFyH...BolotBochkarev
Shamanistic Ritual in Old Turks (very similar to Mongolian ones):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=camc...zhanKo%C3%A 7
So, looks like for Norwegian Saami there are no totemic animal ancestors to speak of as such and in “Heaven”, no wolves nor horses, but now I’d be really curious to know if Forest and Skolt Saami differ in the horse issue.
Saami worldview:
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/...fig4_271068683
ProtoUralic world-view:
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/...fig8_271068683