The Encyclopedia of Uralic Mythologies is a descriptive and analytic compendium of the mythologies of the peoples speaking Uralic languages - from the Lapps in Northern Europe and up to the Selkups and Nganasans in Siberia.

The peoples of the Uralic linguistic family being the aborigines of the Eurasiatic North survived a long and complicated history and preserved their original religious and mythological traditions, where traces of primitive beliefs and archaic religious systems (e.g. shamanism) merge into ancient influences (e.g. the Indo-Iranian and Ancient Germanic) and into the later impacts of modern religions.

Mythology is understood in broad sense, as the world view, the language of the traditional culture, in all aspects: the history of study, the separate ethnic mythological systems in their origin and historical processes, the reconstruction of the proto-Uralic sources of the modern Uralic mythologies.

The central part of the books is to be the explanatory and etymological dictionary of mythological terms of Uralic traditions. The books will have an index of mythological terms, a glossary, list of literature and an introduction devoted to the history of the given Uralian nations.

The Encyclopedia of Uralic Mythologies is a descriptive and analytic compendium of the mythologies of the peoples speaking Uralic languages - from the Lapps in Northern Europe and up to the Selkups and Nganasans in Siberia.
The peoples of the Uralic linguistic family being the aborigines of the Eurasiatic North survived a long and complicated history and preserved their original religious and mythological traditions, where traces of primitive beliefs and archaic religious systems (e.g. shamanism) merge into ancient influences (e.g. the Indo-Iranian and Ancient Germanic) and into the later impacts of modern religions.
Mythology - is understood in broad sense, as the world view, the language of the traditional culture, in all aspects: the history of study, the separate ethnic mythological systems in their origin and historical processes, the reconstruction of the proto-Uralic sources of the modern Uralic mythologies.
The central part of the books is to be the explanatory and etymological dictionary of mythological terms of Uralic traditions. The books will have an index of mythological terms, a glossary, list of literature and an introduction devoted to the history of the given Uralian nations.
The editors-in-chief of the Encyclopedia are Academy Professor Anna-Leena Siikala (Academy of Finland, Helsinki University), Dr. Mihály Hoppál (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) and Dr. Vladimir Napolskikh (Russian Academy of Sciences).