The Nenets’ Sacred Places: The singing mountain Yanganya Pe

Abstract

The cult of stones and mountains among the Nenets is very well developed and has a significant role in their culture. In the Polar Ural Mountains there are several sacred mountains that are especially revered by the Nenets. The Soviet ethnographer Lyudmila Khomich[1] wrote that it has many similarities with the same cults of mountains among the Sami people.

Keywords

• nenets
• cultural heritage
• cultural preservation
• peoples of the arctic
• religion
• sacred places