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Article: Trees in Udmurt religion.(Russia)
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- Antiquity
- Article date:
- June 1, 2006
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Introduction
This paper provides a description of the worship of trees in the religious tradition of the Udmurt--one of the ancient agrarian peoples of Eastern Europe. The tradition is interesting for several reasons. Firstly, the Udmurt have a particular system of ritual practice, which focuses on holy places and ceremonies, in contrast to the shamanism of their Siberian neighbours beyond the Urals. Secondly, traditional traits have survived embedded within, and in spite of, Christianisation in the eighteenth-nineteenth centuries and Soviet repressions and atheistic education in the 1930-1970s. Thirdly, recent work in the Udmurt region offers a good example of ...
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