One of the best kept secrets is the Sami people. A quick look on several Wikipedia pages clearly shows that these people have the same clothes, homes, ways, and rituals as some of the ancient AmerIndians. But not a word is ever mentioned about this in the schools, academia, or mainstream media:
Traditional raised Sami storehouse, displayed at Skansen, Stockholm. A similar structure, the izbushka, is mentioned in Russian fairy tales as a “house with chicken legs”
The combination of long houses and tipis is very similar to AmerIndian homes from the past. Now let’s look at the women and the cradleboard both cultures used:
Sami woman from Sweden
Sami mother with her children
A Navajo-style cradleboard.
The Sami shaman known as the Noaidi is the intermediary between the spirit world and the physical world. They healed the sick and helped the tribe. This is the same practice of Shamans in South America.
The Sami also have a pantheon and a sky god equivalent to Zeus (of course they would because he traveled the world).
Aside from the Bear Cult, there are other animal spirits such as the Haldi who watched over nature. Some Sami people had a thunder god called Tiermes, sometimes calledHoragalles. Radien or Vearalden was a sky-ruling god. The symbol of the world tree or pillar similar in Finnish mythology that reached up to the North star was marked by astytto.[2]
Lastly, here are the Sami people shown on Wikipedia. Some are clearly Caucasian while others are clearly part Asian:
Anthropologists have been studying the Sami people for hundreds of years for their assumed physical and cultural differences from the rest of the Europeans. Recent genetic studies have indicated that the two most frequentmaternal lineages of the Sámi people are the haplogroups V and U5b, ancient in Europe. “The Y-chromosomal variety in the Saami is also consistent with their European ancestry. It suggests that the large genetic separation of the Saami from other Europeans is best explained by assuming that the Saami are descendants of a narrow, distinctive subset of Europeans.”[128] Other haplogroups suggest additional input from other populations at various times. This tallies with archeological evidence suggesting that several different cultural groups made their way to the core area of Sami from 8000 to 6000 BC,[129] presumably including some of the ancestors of present-day Sami.
Considering some of their similarities to American Southwestern AmerIndian tribes, the Sami are the likely candidates for the red-haired giants of Lovelock cave and the Coloradoan cliff dwellers. The Piutes said they took “native” women as wives and from what I can see, perhaps some of them and their children came back to Nordic land while others stayed behind and became AmerIndian tribes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_people
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cradleboard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noaidi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_shamanism
