… Clive Tolley (University of Turku) advances further into the problems of comparative research,
examining the unexpected course taken by a mythic motif associated with Uralic traditions, …

… at the differences in the mythic traditions of different Finno-Ugric and Uralic groups. There
are… mythical thinking and mythic-historical discourse through fieldwork. The new field materials …

… as a mythic discourse in which meanings are generated at all levels of tradition. … This is
evident if we look at the differences in the mythic tradi tions of different Finno-Ugric and Uralic …

… , history and society of individuals and groups concerned. If, rather than investigating individual
myths in isolation, we investigate the mythic … the nature of myths and the reasons for their …

… attunement of nature, providentially, to culture, and of culture, prescriptively, to nature- …
myths is the claim that myths are meant to be explanatory. Creation myths and culture-hero myths …

… Mythic discourses in the present day show how vernacular … At the same time, continuities in
mythic images, motifs, myths … of Mythic Discourses address the many facets of myth in Uralic …

… functional projections to different discourse functions. He proposes … Other papers take a
more traditional approach to clitic … The second chapter deals with the history of Uralic studies. It …

… recent developments in Uralic comparative studies with the … the 20th century Uralic studies
underwent a drift from a traditional … Like all fields of research, Uralic comparative studies is in …

… culture of the Proto-Uralic speakers living in the taiga forests of Western Siberia and the
Urals until the 6th–4th millennia BC. It was proposed that it later spread together with the Uralic …

… exceptional case impact of Uralic traditions on Scandinavian, … history of particular mythological
events. However, much … a product linked to Christian discourse and Christian learning. (…