Taymyr Samoyed

people
Also known as: Taimyr Samoyed

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worship of sun goddesses

  • Charles Sprague Pearce: Religion
    In nature worship: The sun as a subordinate deity

    Siberian people such as the Taymyr Samoyed (whose women pray in spring to the sun goddess in order to receive fertility or a rich calving of the reindeer) or the Tungus worship sun goddesses. They make sacrifices to the sun goddess, and her symbols are embroidered on women’s clothes.

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