Cosmos of the Sami People

The Sami peoples cosmos was made up of three different levels, upper, middle and lower. The upper world translates to the south of them where it is warmer and vegetation and such are able to grow in a moderate amount, it represents life. When they visualized the south and with its warmth and feel of life they associated it with the color white. It was where the sun and earth god Mattaraahkka lived, any and all of their gods were always women never men. The middle world was considered the world where all humans needed to exist and was the average place of living, often associated with the color red. All the creatures that dived into the water lived in the underworld which is the north, cold and dark, they associated this with the color black.

Homeland of Sami People

Finland is a Nordic country inside northern Europe. Finland was settled at in 8500 BCE around the stone age which is to be considered very late for a region of the world to be inhabited.

Throughout the Sami peoples existance they've inhabited a lot of different places some of these places being: Sweden, Finland (already mentioned) and the kola peninsula of russia.

To help you better understand these places that the sami people chose to reside I will explain in better detail about the places. Sweden is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe. Sweden borders Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark. 

Kola peninsula is on the northwest side of russia. There is a similar peninsula the north side of kola peninsula, and it had alreadt been in settled on in 7th-5th millennium BCE.

Intro/History of Sami people

My name is Chris Adams, I am a student blogger at ESU (East Stroudsburg University). Through these blogs i will help you have a better understanding of the Sami people. i will go into their history, cosmos Diaspora Cultural survival and much more. i hope that you learn a lot from this and it opens your mind to another world.

Since prehistoric times, the Sami people of arctic Europe have inhabited an area that stretches over the regions Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. they settled down in northern arctic and subarctic regions of Fenno Scandinavia for at least 5000 years. they had 11 languages but the number has dropped, they speak the language depending on the region in which they live for example Swedish if they live in Sweden. This culture or group of people is one of the oldest to be found in northern Norway. Putting into consideration where they live there is little or no vegetation there so they resided to the hunting and gathering lifestyle. Their style of fishing, hunting and trade was preserved till the middle ages, but they branched of once they saw the modern style of the Nordic countries, some of these styles being: Finnish, Norwegian nynorsk and many more. They have made major changes to their lifestyle in the past 200 years, incorporating politics and economics into their way of life.