Revisiting the Hossa-Värikallio Rock Painting: Towards a Theory of a Sámi Cosmological Landscape

Research at the Hossa-Värikallio rock painting which is the largest rock art location in north-east Finland has brought into focus a multitude of different figures that are dancing and thus, linking the site with a prehistoric shamanistic séance. The comparative research presented below has been undertaken in order to help broaden and strengthen earlier research undertaken by the author at the site in terms of bringing into focus additional parallels between certain figures and those illustrated within landscapes on Sámi noaidi drums from the seventeenth-century and other rock art landscapes in Finland.