Supernatural Gamekeepers among the Ainu and Their Possible Parallels
Author(s): Hitoshi Yamada
Year: 2019
Summary
This is an abstract from the "Supernatural Gamekeepers and Animal Masters: A Cross-Cultural Perspective" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
Supernatural gamekeepers of the Ainu appear in yukar divine songs. Mainly as master of deer (yuk kor kamuy) or master of salmon (cep kor kamuy), they have controlled the main suppliers of animal protein. On the one hand, they were believed to keep the animals in a storehouse or a bag, or to multiply them from bristles, scales or bones. On the other, however, if hunters or fishers catch too much game, they could hide the animals and prevent the human beings from destroying them. In this paper, I will compare the Ainu gamekeepers with parallel figures among neighboring ethnic groups as well as in Northeast Japan.
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Supernatural Gamekeepers among the Ainu and Their Possible Parallels. Hitoshi Yamada. Presented at The 84th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, NM. 2019 ( tDAR id: 450369)
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Geographic Keywords
Asia: East Asia
Spatial Coverage
min long: 70.4; min lat: 17.141 ; max long: 146.514; max lat: 53.956 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 22843