Spirits of the Tundra. Epic, Ancestral, and Shamanic Tales of Nёlёko Vylko

The Vaigach Island long remained a forbidden territory, inhabited by the ancestral spirits of the Nenets people. Women were forbidden even to set foot on this sacred land. It was there, in 1948-49, that the geodesist M.S. Sinitsyn (1928-2000) recorded... tales of heroes and shamans, of the masters of nature - the spirits and ancestral spirits - from the outstanding Nenets storyteller Nёlёko Vylko. For almost 70 years they lay in the archive, unpublished, despite the enthusiastic reviews from such renowned folklore specialists as V.Ya. Propp, B.O. Dolgikh, and S.I. Mintz. At that time, publishing such materials without appropriate censorship was quite problematic, and only now does this unique collection of the spiritual heritage of the Nenets people return to the people. Designed for adult readers.