Selcup
The Selkupen are an indigenous people of Siberia , some of whom still live nomadically in the area between the central reaches of the Ob and Yenisei rivers . The approx. 4000 Selkupen belong to the Samoyed , a group of smaller ethnic groups that belong to the Urals language family . They used to be called Ostjak Samoyed, but this could lead to confusion, because the Ostjak, who call themselves Chanten , have a different origin.
About 47% of the Selkup people still speak the Selkup language . The Selkupen have the privilege of catching more sturgeon and other game fish from the rivers than the Russians are allowed to.
The so-called "classical shamanism" was the ethnic religion of the Selkupen. 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. There used to be three categories of shamans. The shaman's disposition was inherited: the shaman's souls allegedly returned to the world after death to settle in a successor. Shamans still play an important role in the culture of the Selkupen. Christianization has so far only taken place very superficially with this people; the old religion is still alive.
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- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Selkup, Ostyak Samoyed in Russia . ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. People-in-Country Profile on Joshua Project , accessed September 11, 2015.
