La religione dei sámi

Abstract

Located in the Northern regions, sámi people have always inspired travellers and historians that depicted them as mighty sourceres. Their conception fo the world, together with their rituals and cults have preserved ancient traits that may help understanding the corrispondent uses of neighbouring peoples. Their religion and some of their rituals may be inherited in ancient times. Sámi’s pantheon may derive from Nordic mythology. The present article aims to show the sámi’s conception of the world through the dead’s cult and that of sacred stones, the bear’s veneration, the nature’s, birth’s and home’s gods, ending with sámi shamanism.