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A Finnic holy word and its subsequent history.

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    Autor:
    Koski, Mauno (1930-2005) kirjoittaja.
    Format:
    Artykuł z czasopisma
    Język:
    English
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    ed. by Tore Ahlbäck Old Norse and Finnish religions and cultic place-names : based on papers read at the Symposium on encounters between religions in old Nordic times and on cultic place-names held at Åbo, Finland, on the 19th-21st of August 1987. - Åbo : Donner Institute for Research in Religious and Cultural History, 1990. - Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, ISSN 0582-3226 ; 13. - 951-649-695-4. - Sivut 404-440
    Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis. - The Donner Institute. - ISSN 2343-4937. - 13 (1990) , s. 404-440
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    Agricola, Mikael.

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    This article concentrates on a specific ancient holy word in Finnish and its subsequent development, hiisi. In the Finnish language region hiisi appears as an element in place names in over 230 villages established by the end of the thirteenth century, and at least a majority of these must have existed since prehistoric times. In Finland as well as in Estonia it is possible to demonstrate an earlier sacral function in places which contain hiisi as a component of their name, partly with the help of archeological discoveries, and partly with the help of oral folk tradition. It is particularly among the earliest settlement areas of Southwest Finland, Satakunta and Häme that hiisi features in the names of sacrificial sites or trees, in other words in the same areas where it features in the names of burial grounds. Names in which the hiisi element precedes a word meaning a lake, pond, or other water formation, occur particularly in the eastern Finnish dialect regions, as well as in the regions of Karelian, Olonets, Lydian, and Vepsian. In addition to its factual meaning of cult place, the Finnish word hiisi has come to denote a supernatural entity both in terms of its reference to a place and in terms of its reference to a being.


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