Sun-Eater, Moon-Swallower
An Encyclopedia of Volga Turkic Mythical Beings with an Anthology
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Beschreibung
The Chuvash, the Kazan Tatars and the Bashkirs are Turkic-speaking peoples which have long inhabited the Volga region in Russia. For centuries, Islam and Orthodox Christianity have coexisted and blended here with folk religiosity and “pagan” beliefs. Delving into this rich cultural landscape, Sun-Eater, Moon-Swallower offers an encyclopaedic collection of narratives about mythical beings recorded among these Volga Turkic peoples. The first section of the book contains almost two hundred entries, analysing unpublished ethnographic material and rare publications and further exploring the linguistic background of the names of the various mythical entities. The second section is an anthology of texts which serve to contextualise the entries of the first section. It consists of pagan prayers, healing incantations, and stories about harmful creatures, which appear in English translation for the first time.
Autor*in
Edina Dallos
is Associate Professor at the Department of Turkic Studies at ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
Themen in »Sun-Eater, Moon-Swallower«
Volga region Turkic folklore folk religion Chuvash believes Islam and local believes folk prayer Bashkir and Tatar incantations supernatural beings Turkic studies Sozialanthropologie Central Eurasian Library Edina Dallos