Enzen (people)
The Enzen (Russian: Enzy / Энцы, singular: Enez / Энец, historical name: Yenisei-Samoyed; not to be confused with the Yenisei-Ostyak = Keten ) are a people with about 230 members who live on the southwestern edge of the Taimyr peninsula and thus settling in the west of the northern part of the North Siberian lowlands .
The so-called "classical shamanism" was the ethnic religion of the Enzen. The ethnologist Klaus E. Müller speaks of "complex shamanism" and means those forms that have developed a complex ritual culture through contact with other religions and neighboring agricultural societies. The Enzen know three categories of shamans. In the past, the shaman had to survive a very complex initiation with a journey to heaven , contact with the main god Ülgen and tests of courage.
Christianization only took place superficially among many remote peoples of Siberia, so that syncretistic mixed religions are common today.
Most of the Enzen live in the settlement of Potapowo , near the mouth of the Yenisei . The Enzic language belongs to the Samoyed language family . Politically, the Enzen belong to the group of indigenous peoples of the Russian north, Siberia and the Russian Far East .
literature
- HV Rogacheva: Enets . In: Mark Nuttall (Ed.): Encyclopedia of the Arctic . tape 1 . Routledge, New York and London 2003, ISBN 1-57958-436-5 , pp. 561–564 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
Web links
- Article Enzen in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Klaus E. Müller: Shamanism. Healers, spirits, rituals. 4th edition, CH Beck, Munich 2010 (original edition 1997), ISBN 978-3-406-41872-3 . Pp. 30-33, 41.
- ↑ The small peoples of the far north and far east of Russia. Society for Threatened Peoples - South Tyrol, Bozen 1998.