Sacred mountains and arctic rock art in northern Norway

In the Sami worldview, mountains are living entities closely linked to the atmospheric deities, ancestral spirits and shamanic rituals. Peaks may be named after animals, due to a morphological resemblance or a mythical connection. Ancestral places of offering, with deposits of bone and antler of rei...

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spelling I11-R89article-47732022-09-20T18:21:35Z Montañas sagradas y arte rupestre ártico en el Norte de Noruega Sacred mountains and arctic rock art in northern Norway Ceruti, María Constanza Montañas sagradas Arte rupestre ártico Norte de Escandinavia Arqueología Sacred Mountains Artic Rock Art Northen Escandinavia Archaeology In the Sami worldview, mountains are living entities closely linked to the atmospheric deities, ancestral spirits and shamanic rituals. Peaks may be named after animals, due to a morphological resemblance or a mythical connection. Ancestral places of offering, with deposits of bone and antler of reindeers, known as seides are oftentimes located near distinctive sacred rocks, or below the summit. Isolated mountains with distinctive prominences are considered as protectors of the area and given the name Haldi. This paper is based in the author´s field experience as an anthropologist and archaeologist who has climbed sacred peaks north of the Arctic Polar Circle. The symbolic dimension of arctic mountains is interpreted in connection with ancient representations of shamans and auxiliary spirits, in rock art panels photographed in the fjords of Tromso and Alta, in northern Scandinavia. En la cosmovisión de los pobladores Sami, las montañas son entidades vivientes vinculadas a las deidades atmosféricas, los ancestros y los rituales chamánicos. Los picos pueden ser nombrados como animales en virtud de semejanzas morfológicas o conexiones mitológicas. Las montañas aisladas con prominencias distintivas se consideran protectoras de un área y se denominan “haldi”. Los lugares tradicionales de ofrenda, llamados “seides”, se sitúan debajo de las cumbres o junto a rocas sagradas distintivas. Esta investigación se basa en la experiencia de campo de la autora como arqueóloga y antropóloga que ha escalado picos al norte del Círculo Polar Ártico. La dimensión simbólica de la montaña es analizada en relación con motivos de chamanes y espíritus auxiliares, representados en sitios con arte rupestre fotografiados en los fiordos de Tromso y Alta, en el norte de Escandinavia.  Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo 2021-08-10 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer reviewed article Artículo evaluado por pares application/pdf https://revistas.uncu.edu.ar/ojs3/index.php/revhistuniv/article/view/4773 Revista de Historia Universal; Núm. 23 (2021): Febrero / Julio; 17-37 2683-8869 0328-3704 spa https://revistas.uncu.edu.ar/ojs3/index.php/revhistuniv/article/view/4773/3862 Derechos de autor 2021 Revista de Historia Universal
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Sacred mountains and arctic rock art in northern Norway
Montañas sagradas
Arte rupestre ártico
Norte de Escandinavia
Arqueología
Sacred Mountains
Artic Rock Art
Northen Escandinavia
Archaeology
author_facet Ceruti, María Constanza
author_sort Ceruti, María Constanza
title Sacred mountains and arctic rock art in northern Norway
title_short Sacred mountains and arctic rock art in northern Norway
title_full Sacred mountains and arctic rock art in northern Norway
title_fullStr Sacred mountains and arctic rock art in northern Norway
title_full_unstemmed Sacred mountains and arctic rock art in northern Norway
title_sort montañas sagradas y arte rupestre ártico en el norte de noruega
description In the Sami worldview, mountains are living entities closely linked to the atmospheric deities, ancestral spirits and shamanic rituals. Peaks may be named after animals, due to a morphological resemblance or a mythical connection. Ancestral places of offering, with deposits of bone and antler of reindeers, known as seides are oftentimes located near distinctive sacred rocks, or below the summit. Isolated mountains with distinctive prominences are considered as protectors of the area and given the name Haldi. This paper is based in the author´s field experience as an anthropologist and archaeologist who has climbed sacred peaks north of the Arctic Polar Circle. The symbolic dimension of arctic mountains is interpreted in connection with ancient representations of shamans and auxiliary spirits, in rock art panels photographed in the fjords of Tromso and Alta, in northern Scandinavia.
publisher Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo
publishDate 2021
url https://revistas.uncu.edu.ar/ojs3/index.php/revhistuniv/article/view/4773
topic Montañas sagradas
Arte rupestre ártico
Norte de Escandinavia
Arqueología
Sacred Mountains
Artic Rock Art
Northen Escandinavia
Archaeology
topic_facet Montañas sagradas
Arte rupestre ártico
Norte de Escandinavia
Arqueología
Sacred Mountains
Artic Rock Art
Northen Escandinavia
Archaeology
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