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Consecration ritual for a blacksmith novice among the Yakuts

Journal of American folk-lore • 46 • Published In 1933 • Pages: 257-271

By: Popov, A. A..

Abstract
This paper describes one ritual from the large unpublished Russian manuscript on religious beliefs and ceremonies of the Yakuts. According to an introductory footnote, all the speeches and incantations in the original manuscript, for which we have no more information, are accompanied by the Yakut text. It has been impossible to determine the amount of field work and the field dates, if there are any, of this work. The article itself gives a very complete and detailed account of the ritual of consecration for a blacksmith novice among the Yakut, and excellent information on the prestige accompanying the position of blacksmith and shaman and the relationship between the two. Accompanying the article in the footnotes and in an introductory bibliographical footnote are references to sources for the study of Yakut tales and lore and of Yakut shamanism.
Subjects
Organized ceremonial
culture
Yakut
HRAF PubDate
1997
Region
Asia
Sub Region
North Asia
Document Type
article
Evaluation
Creator Type
Ethnologist
Document Rating
3: Good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent
Analyst
RCH ; 1950-1956
Field Date
no date
Coverage Date
not specified
Coverage Place
Sakha Republic, Russian Federation
Notes
A. Popov
This document consists of excerpts
LCCN
17028737
LCSH
Yakut (Turkic people)