Hõimlane verejõe tagant: Saami muinaslood tootempõhjapõdrast. VII

Abstract

The last part of the series of writings analyses the myth of the snow-white sun reindeer with golden horns called Meandash-põõrre published by V.Tsharnoluski. The collector of the published story has most probably combined the accounts of at least two different narrators. The current myth providing it is authentic represents in a classical manner how the god, the ancestor and the reindeer fairy of the tribe has become the god of sun. The name Meandash-põõrre has no mythological meaning, it stands for quarry (see the dictionary by I.Itkonen). The dropping of the horn in the story symbolising wealth, fertility and anything positive could be associated with concepts of horn fence and horn piles.