page_title: Tomskaya Pisanitsa Museum
section_title: "Mythology and epos of Siberian peoples"
hierarchical_section_title: Tomskaya Pisanitsa Museum / "Mythology and epos of Siberian peoples"
caption_attribution_description: English: Mythological field in Tomskaya Pisanitsa museum, Kemerovo Oblast, Russia Русский: «Мифология. Эпос» в музее-заповеднике «Томская писаница», Кемеровская область, Россия
context_page_description: The Tomskaya Pisanitsa Museum is an open-air museum located some 50 km north-west of Kemerovo on the right bank of the Tom River in Western Siberia, Russia. It is famous for its 280 petroglyphs dating from 4000–1000 BC. The exhibition also includes reconstructions of ancient dwellings as well as some later cultural artefacts pertaining to the Shors people.
context_section_description: Myth-making is a very important phenomenon of the Siberian peoples spiritual history. It is a way of explanation and comprehension of the world, a primary form of human spiritual culture. Epos originates from myths as a form of collective verbal folk art. The epos of nationalities characterized by late appearance of written language and literature is especially plentiful. Siberian peoples belong to this category. The philosophy and the mythology of the nationality, its notions about the Universe, the unity of Man and Nature are reflected in epos.
  The museum complex is situated on the cultic hill above the sanctuary "Tomskaya pisanitsa" and includes a gallery of ancient cult sculptures, a sacred tree and commemoration places of different epochs.
  The purpose of exposition is to show the history of Siberian peoples at different times through the demonstration of their ideological conceptions. It includes the following objects: the "sacred tree", the sculptural means of mythology (sculpture mockups of the Bronze Age — early Iron Age), credences of different time, the sacred rock altars and the cult places of Siberian peoples. This complex is fully based on historical reconstructions.
caption: Mythological field in Tomskaya Pisanitsa museum
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