The "Päällyskivi" seita rises on the shores of Inari Lake. It has been determined to be a sacred place through the arrangement of the stones on top.
Posted on 06/15/2010 6:34:48 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The low rays of the sun caress the rough surface of a strange stone arrangement on the shore of Inari Lake in Sápmi, or Finnish Lapland. In the shallow water sits a boulder, on top of which rests the Päällyskivi ("Top Stone"), the shape of which resembles the head of an elk. The top stone is supported by three smaller stones. "Everything suggests that this is a seita", says Inari Sámi seita expert Ilmari Mattus, while observing the construction... Seitas, or the old sacred places of the Sámi people, have become the subject of renewed interest. The name varies, depending on the local Sámi dialect, and the places are also known as sieidis or Storjunkare. The Academy of Finland is funding a four-year research project, in connection with which six seitas have already been examined. The archaeologists from the University of Oulu have performed small-scale excavations in the vicinity of the seitas... "Based on radiocarbon dating, the oldest findings have been dated back to the 12th century", says archaeologist Tiina Äikäs. Next to most of the examined sacred places the bones of animals, such as reindeer, goats, sheep, or various types of bird and fish species have been located.
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The "Päällyskivi" seita rises on the shores of Inari Lake. It has been determined to be a sacred place through the arrangement of the stones on top.
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Perhaps this is what make Saami run...
Ping.
If you are interested in the conditions of life faced on a daily basis (from Early Fall to Late Spring) by the reindeer runners (Skolt, et al) this is it (for the countryside).
There's a lot of gratuitous violence in this one.
Doesn’t look much like most elk heads that I’ve seen.
a Nazi Zombie film... There's a lot of gratuitous violence in this one.I wouldn't have guessed that. ;')
This is a doper site. Extract of amanita muscaria gives you the impression of "flying". Reindeer who eat the mushroom run around rolling their eyes and probably think they are flying.
See how the artist has used the striations in the glacially ground stone to emphasize the upward surge of the reindeer.
There'd be a guy blowing a trumpet and beating a drum in front of this one.
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