Do You See What I See? The Mythic Landscape in the Immediate World
Do You See What I See? The Mythic Landscape in the Immediate World

Summary/Abstract: This paper approaches relationships between visual and verbal aspects of performance in the rites of the tietäjä, an ethnic ritual specialist, recorded in Archangel Karelia. The focus is on the manipulation of motifs in the activation of mythic images which utilize features of the natural landscape. It will take a ‘thick corpus’ approach, attempting to contextualize these rites as much as possible within broader systems of cultural activity. Two examples of ‘power’ gathering (luonto-raising) rites will be treated in detail, considering their relationships to ‘tradition’ and the understanding of the informant.

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