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Mansi

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Cosmogonic MythsMansi (Vogul) cosmogonic myths — all eleven creation narratives from Munkácsi's 1892 collection: the earth-diver creation, the encircling of the earth, the Song of the Flooding of Sky and Earth, the sacred fire-flood, the sacred song of the lowering of the earth from the sky (with the origin of the bear and of disease), the Song of Creation of Earth and Sky (a second messenger-cycle epic with the origin of the bear-oath), the creation of man, the complete earth-emerging-from-water cycle, the Devil-Prince dualistic creation, the Mansi Adam and Eve, and the song of cities sung into being — translated from Mansi via Hungarian.
Munkácsi — Bear Ceremony Songs14 pages

Bear ceremony songs from Bernát Munkácsi's Vogul folklore collection (1892–1921).