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But tho they uSually make them in this Shape, yet there are Some,
eSpe-cially in Lapponia Tornenfis, who worShip a meer Slump. They have no
Image of the Sun, either becauSe he is conSpicuous enough cf himSelf, or
bedaufe in the mystery of their Religion he is the Same with Thor: but
Stor-jtmkar is represented with a SI one, as is clearly prcved by Several
Writers , and eaSily deduced Srom others. The Sorm of this stone ( if we will
believe Olaus Petri Neuren. ) was like a Bird, Samuel Rheen faies it Somtimes
represents a man, and Somtimes Som other creature. The truth is its Shape
is So rude, that they may Sooner fancy it like Somthiog themfelves, then
perSwade other People that it is So. In the mean time their Sancy is So
flrong, that they really believe it represents their Storjunkar, and worShip
it accordingly. Neither do theyuSe any art in poliShing it, but take it as
they find it upon the banks of Lakes and Rivers. In this lhtpe therefore
they uoiihip it, not as tho it were So made by chance, but by the
immediate will and procurement of their god Storjunkar, that it might be
Sacred to him. Thus they ereft it as his image, and call it Kied Kie Juhmil
i.e. the stone God. The rudenefs of thefe Images gaye 7"w»rf«aoceafion to
deny that they had any Shape at all, only made rough and hollow by the
falling of water upon them, tho their hallownefs without doubt occasioned
the Laplanders fancy of their likeneSs to Something: but he confeffes that
in an Island made by a Catarafi of the River Tornatrtsk. called Dana ,
there are found Seitd, just in the Shape of a man , one of them very tall,
and hard by 4 others Something lower, with a kind of Cap on their heads.
But becaufe the paSTage into the Ifland is dangerous by reaSon of the
Ca-t^rad, the Laplanders are forc’t to deSift from going to that place, So that
i/t is impoffibSe now to know how thofe Stones are worshipped, or how
they came there. Thefe stones are not Set up by them Selves, but lie 3 or
14 together, according as they find them; the first of which they honor

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