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ACCOUNT OF DANISH LAPLAND BY LEEMS. 459
is alfo an ode ufually recited on his anniverfary. Kio/e-O/mai is the god of fifhing, who,
to favour a fortunate and happy capture of fifh, receives divine honours.
Maderakko with her three daughters is the goddefs, who brings fuccours to females :
her they endeavour to render propitious by religious worfhip, that fhe may permit her
three daughters to fuccour women when the occafion calls for it. Some contend that
fhe herfelf gives the aififtance ; others deny and fay fhe does it by promoting the en-
deavours and labours of her daughters.
The eldeft of the daughters of the goddefs Maderakko is called Sarakka ; this is fhe
who prepares the body for the foetus in the womb of its mother, when Radien has let
down the fpirit or foul from heaven, as juft mentioned: fhe is believed to be the af
fiftant of women in labour, and is forely affected by their pains as the woman herlelf.
That irreligious and abominable facrifice, before the ufe of the Lord’s Supper was intro-
duced, is faid to be inftituted in honour of this goddefs ; and fince the preparation of
the body and blood of the embryo in the womb is afcribed to her, the body and blood
of Sarakka is faid to be eaten and drunk, horrid to relate, in the falfe facrament. Others
contend that in the faid facrament that the body of Leib Olmai is eaten, but that the
blood of Sarakka is drunk ; but in fo aflerting they commit a manifeft error, in a mat-
ter in every other refpect foul and full of blafphemy, in confounding Leib Olmai with
Radien, to whom, as contributing to the feetus in its formation a fpirit, this honour,
fuch as it is, is due; whereas Leib O/mai contributes not all to the formation of man.
And fo it is, or as it is manifeft itfelf from this, that there are Laplanders who confefs
that they have eaten the body of Radien, and drunk of the blood of Sarakka, in this
abominable rite. But this goddefs is moft religioufly worfhipped by both fexes, chiefly
by the women, and efpecially when in labour, who, in order to obtain an eafy delivery,
often drink to her honour a cup of brandy, and offer, in the hope and with of an
eafy and happy delivery, alibation of meal, water, and honey.
The next in order of the daughters of Maderakko is called Juks-Akka, the goddefs
in whofe power it lay to convert the female in the womb into the male offspring. This
goddefs they ftrive to bind by facrifices to her, becaufe they prefer a male to a female
child, by reafon of their life occupied fo much in fifhing and hunting, to which they are
addicted, and for the exercife of which the males are preferable to the females.
They call the third daughter of this goddefs Ux-dkka. She undertakes the care of
new-born infants, cherifhes them and protects them from all thofe accidents to which
that tender age is expofed. She attends to the monthly ills of the fex, that they fhould
return in good time, and ceafe alfo,on account of which fhe is religioufly worfhipped.
To this clafs belong alfo thofe named Saivo-Olmak, or mountain gods, who aflift all
and every one requiring their afliftance, or are addicted to thofe chiefly who buy thera
for a confideration from other Noaaids, that is, magicians, or procure them by a cer-
tain fingular {kill of the Noaaids, that is, magic art. ‘Thefe are faid to give refponfes
to fuch as confult Saive Olmak, which the Laplanders contend to be done in various
ways; by vifions in fleep; by Myran, on Runic tabors; ona girdle in a gun; on
{tones, on horfes’ bones, &c. When the magician is exercifing his art that he might get
fome Saivo Olmait, as a tutelary god with him, he refrefhes himfelf with a draught Saivo-
Zhiaze, that is, of mountain-water, as a recruit of ftrength, which he repeats by inter-
vals, efpecially when he has to enter into a trial of the pre-eminence of ftrength with
other magicians. In this conteft thefe magicians commit their Saive-Sarva (by which
is underftood male rein-deer) to fight. ‘The fame iffue as attends thefe attends their
matters ; fo that if the rein-deer fhould lofe his horn in the conteft, the mafter of him,
by akind of fympathy, begins to get ill and languifh.
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