The Polar World a Popular Description of Man And Nature in the Arctic And Antar
The Polar World a Popular Description of Man And Nature in the Arctic And Antar
Georg Hartwig
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Under various names — Schamans among the Tungusi, Angekoks among the Esquimaux, medicine-men among the Crees and Chepewyans, etc. — we find sim- ilar magicians or impostors assuming a spiritual dictatorship over all the Arc- tic nations of the Old and the New World, wherever their authority has not been broken by Christianity or Buddhism ; and this dreary faith still extends its influence over at least half a million of souls, from the White Sea to the ex- tremity of Asia, and from the Pacific ...to Hudson's Bay. Like the Ostiaks and other Siberian tribes, the Samoiedes honor the memory of the dead by sacrifices and other ceremonies. They believe that their de- 183 THE POLAR WORLD. ceased friends have still the same wants, and pursue the same occup*»tions, as when in the land of the living ; and thus they place in or about their graves a sledge, a spear, a cooking-pot, a knife, an axe, etc. , to assist them in procuring and preparing their food. At the funeral, and for several years afterwards, the relations sacrifice reindeer over the grave.
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