99 maps on the ethnic culture of the peoples of Finland and Karelia: rites, customs, beliefs, narratives and poetry in archaic meter. The Atlas is a unique cartographic analysis of the culture of northern hunter-gatherers, swidden cultivators and agrarian peasants and their adaptation to the environment of their times; the cultural periods of shamans, sorcerers and Christian villages. A cultural anthropologist's interpretation of the structural changes affecting cultures, from local cultures to delocalization and the postlocal era - scientific-technological finalization

Themes:

LIFE AND DEATH

bear rites, sacrificial stones and trees,

animal sacrifices, memorial rites

MARRIAGE

proposal, betrothal;

kinship and village weddings

ANNUAL FEASTS

local gatherings, festival bonfires,

festival swinging and tours, party games

VILLAGE YOUTH

work parties, village dances,

name-day parties, village swings,

night courting by youths

SHAMANS, SORCERERS AND WITCHES

sorcerer rites, incantations, diseases,

animals lost in the forest,

trulli-witches, witches' helper creatures,

funeral of a witch

ENVIRONMENT NARRATIVES

supernatural guardians, underground folk,

restless souls, tribal wars, treasure legends

SONGS IN ARCHAIC METER

Creation of Earth and Heaven, Hunters, Kantele,

Väinämöinen the Hero, Journey to the Underworld,

Sampo-epic, Cosmic Tree, Savior, medieval ballads

Sublementary writings