Yukaghir

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Soul Hunters ( Yuka G ir of the Upper Kolu:ma )

people & language

 

cosmology & the dead

 

female spirit-owner of game-animals

 

bodily feelings as omens

 

other aspects of ayibii

 

p. 58 "the neighboring Sakha, who see the soul (kut) as being manifested in three forms ... : salgin-kut (air-soul), iia:-kut (mother-soul), and boyor-kut (earth-soul)"

Ku>kul = Abasylar

 

{/AYiBii/ = [AY o B/, ruler of the /> A B-/ (‘ancestors’ ) summoned through /> o B/ (‘seance’)}

animals taking human form

 

{So, animals deserve to be killed and devoured by humans in order to punish them for being so deceptive as to conceal the fact of their actually being humanoid – the parallel in Christianity would be that Christ deserved to be killed and devoured by humans in order to punish him for being so deceptive as to conceal his divine luminous appearance. Just as human have secretly spied on animals in order to see the animals’ humanoid form, so did the disciples spy upon Christ in order to see his Transfiguration, such that Christ sought to punish the disciples for seeing his secret form when he realized that they had spied on him.}

love of animal’s guardian-spirit for hunter

 

Mystical Old People ["Mythical-Old-People" (p. 198, n. 5:4)]

 

figurative terms for animals

 

humans becoming animals (by re-incarnation or in dreams)

 

a’lma (shaman/shamanka)



 T = http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=150&letter=T&search=teraphim



 AS = http://www.blavatsky.net/blavatsky/arts/AnimatedStatues.htm

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LA-L = Georgii Wilhelmi Freytagii : Lexicon Arabico-Latinum. Beirut, 1975.

'EBD = Easton : Bible Dictionary''. ''' http://www.ccel.org/e/easton/ebd/ebd/T0003600.html

 

protection against the ghosts of slaughtered prey-animals

 

marriage of the living to the dead

 

Rane Willerslev : Soul Hunters. U of CA Pr, Berkeley, 2007.