Миф о ныряющих птицах, доставших землю, устройстве мира и дороге в мир умерших: фольклорное наследие селькупов Верхней Кети в материалах новосибирской этнографической экспедиции 1980 г.
Myth about diving birds who pulled out the Earth, world structure and the way into the world of the dead: folklore heritage of the Selkups of Upper Ket′ in the materials of the Novosibirsk ethnographic expedition of 1980

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents a brief overview of the materials collected during the ethnographic expedition from Novosibirsk to the Selkups in 1980, directed by Izmail Gimuev. In it, a sample of a shaman’s song is being published for the first time. The song is sung while in trance and was performed by N. Kondukov — a shaman and a storyteller, who is well-known in the Upper Ket’ district of the Tomsk region. In this song the shaman describes his way into the world of the dead and gives his comments regarding the structure of the universe and the history of the creation of the world (a version of the diving bird myth).

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