Category: 800-500BCE
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The drum to get in trance
Indigenous Sámi religion The Sámi (/ˈsɑːmi/ SAH-mee; also spelled Sami or Saami) are the traditionally Sámi-speaking peoples inhabiting the region of Sápmi, which today encompasses large northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and of the Kola Peninsula in Russia. Indigenous[167] Sámi religion is a type of polytheism. (See Sámi deities.) There is some diversity due to the wide area that is Sápmi, allowing for the evolution of variations in beliefs and practices between…
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Scythian cosmology
The Scythian cosmology corresponded to the typically Indo-Iranic tripartite structure of the universe of Scythian cosmology,[4] which is also present in the Vedic and Avestan traditions, and according to which the universe was composed of:[5] Since the Scythians did not have a written language, their non-material culture can only be pieced together through writings by non-Scythian authors, parallels found among…
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The Flaming One
TABITI “the Burning One” or “the Flaming One goddess of the primordial fire which alone existed before the creation of the universe and was the basic essence and the source of all creation. She was the most venerated of all Scythian deities. Tabiti was the primordial fire which alone existed before the creation of the…