Kalevala Mythology, Revised Edition"Pentikäinen's exceptional interdisciplinary study will richly reward those interested in the dynamics of artistic creation and cultural construction, ethnic emergence and political nationalism, and shamanistic belief systems." —American Anthropologist |
Contents
CHAPTER | 1 |
From Mythology to Comparative Religion | 7 |
CHAPTER | 14 |
Early Reception of the Kalevala Abroad | 22 |
CHAPTER 3 | 29 |
The Lemminkäinen Series | 35 |
A Female Metamorphosis | 43 |
CHAPTER 4 | 68 |
CHAPTER 8 | 153 |
An Ancient Finnish Olympus or the Kingdom | 159 |
Primordial Father Descended from the Heavens | 166 |
CHAPTER 9 | 177 |
CHAPTER 10 | 200 |
Hades or the Finnish Kingdom of Osiris | 206 |
Child Abandonment as an Epical Motif | 213 |
CHAPTER 11 | 221 |
Paganism versus Finnish | 75 |
CHAPTER 5 | 83 |
Ancient Cultural Contacts along the Silk Road | 91 |
CHAPTER 6 | 97 |
How Does One Become a Rune Singer? | 104 |
The Significance of the Runes for the Singers | 112 |
The Region of Epical Rune Singing | 120 |
CHAPTER 7 | 131 |
The Emergence of Finnish Identity under Russian Rule | 227 |
CHAPTER 12 | 234 |
APPENDIXES | 257 |
Notes | 269 |
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