1724 fr. Religious Ceremonies of the World by Picart, Nordic Sami people

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1724 fr. Religious Ceremonies of the World by Picart, Nordic Sami people

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Sami People of the Nordic areas (Norway, Sweden and Finland) is offering and praying at a mound grave or tumuli. They are praying to the God of the Underworld. They offered horse’s and deer’s for the God worshipped at this sacred place. Bernard Picart used some of the same depictions of the ancient Sami religion as Johannes Scheffer or Johannes Schefferus had used for documenting the Laplander (i.e. Sami) people in the history book "Lapponia" (1673). http://www.saamiblog.blogspot.com/

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