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48 relations: Altered state of consciousness, Arable land, Archaeology of Northern Europe, Balsfjord, Bohuslän, Bronze Age, Brown bear, Clan, Cup and ring mark, Fertility rite, Fosen, Frosta, Halibut, Hell, Norway, History of Norway, Hunter-gatherer, Initiation, Liminality, Møre og Romsdal, Melhus, Moose, Nord-Trøndelag, Nordic Bronze Age, Nordland, Norway, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Petroglyph, Porpoise, Prehistoric art, Red deer, Reindeer, Religious cosmology, Rock art, Rock carvings at Alta, Rock carvings at Tennes, Salmon, Sør-Trøndelag, Scandinavia, Selbu, Sole (foot), Steinkjer, Stjørdal, Stone Age, Sweden, Totem, Trondheim, Underworld, Whale.
Altered state of consciousness
An altered state of consciousness (ASC), also called altered state of mind or mind alteration, is any condition which is significantly different from a normal waking state.
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Arable land
Arable land (from Latin arabilis, "able to be plowed") is, according to one definition, land capable of being ploughed and used to grow crops.
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Archaeology of Northern Europe
The archaeology of Northern Europe studies the prehistory of Scandinavia and the adjacent North European Plain, roughly corresponding to the territories of modern Sweden, Norway, Denmark, northern Germany, Poland and the Netherlands.
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Balsfjord
Balsfjord (Báhccavuotna or Paatsivuono) is a municipality in Troms county, Norway.
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Bohuslän
Bohuslän is a Swedish province in Götaland, on the northernmost part of the country's west coast.
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Bronze Age
The Bronze Age is a historical period characterized by the use of bronze, and in some areas proto-writing, and other early features of urban civilization.
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Brown bear
The brown bear (Ursus arctos) is a bear that is found across much of northern Eurasia and North America.
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Clan
A clan is a group of people united by actual or perceived kinship and descent.
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Cup and ring mark
Cup and ring marks or cup marks are a form of prehistoric art found mainly in Atlantic Europe – Ireland, Wales, Northern England, France (Brittany), Portugal, Finland, Scotland and Spain (Galicia) – and in Mediterranean Europe – Italy (North-West, Sardinia), Greece (Thessalia) as well as in Scandinavia (Denmark and Sweden) and Switzerland (Caschenna site - Graubunden).
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Fertility rite
Fertility rites are religious rituals that reenact, either actually or symbolically, sexual acts and/or reproductive processes: 'sexual intoxication is a typical component of the...rites of the various functional gods who control reproduction, whether of man, beast, cattle, or grains of seed'.
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Fosen
Fosen is a traditional district in Trøndelag, consisting of the municipalities Osen, Roan, Åfjord, Bjugn, Ørland, Rissa, Agdenes, Snillfjord, Hemne, Hitra and Frøya.
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Frosta
Frosta is the smallest municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway.
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Halibut
Halibut is a common name principally applied to the two flatfish in the genus Hippoglossus from the family of right-eye flounders.
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Hell, Norway
Hell is a village in the Lånke area of the municipality of Stjørdal in Trøndelag county, Norway.
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History of Norway
The history of Norway has been influenced to an extraordinary degree by the terrain and the climate of the region.
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Hunter-gatherer
A hunter-gatherer is a human living in a society in which most or all food is obtained by foraging (collecting wild plants and pursuing wild animals), in contrast to agricultural societies, which rely mainly on domesticated species.
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Initiation
Initiation is a rite of passage marking entrance or acceptance into a group or society.
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Liminality
In anthropology, liminality (from the Latin word līmen, meaning "a threshold") is the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of rites, when participants no longer hold their preritual status but have not yet begun the transition to the status they will hold when the rite is complete.
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Møre og Romsdal
Møre og Romsdal (Møre and Romsdal) is a county in the northernmost part of Western Norway.
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Melhus
Melhus is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway.
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Moose
The moose (North America) or elk (Eurasia), Alces alces, is the largest extant species in the deer family.
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Nord-Trøndelag
Nord-Trøndelag ("North Trøndelag") was a county constituting the northern part of the present-day Trøndelag county in Norway.
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Nordic Bronze Age
The Nordic Bronze Age (also Northern Bronze Age, or Scandinavian Bronze Age) is a period of Scandinavian prehistory from c. 1700–500 BC.
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Nordland
Nordland (Nordlánda) is a county in Norway in the Northern Norway region, bordering Troms in the north, Trøndelag in the south, Norrbotten County in Sweden to the east, Västerbotten County to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean (Norwegian Sea) to the west.
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Norway
Norway (Norwegian: (Bokmål) or (Nynorsk); Norga), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a unitary sovereign state whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the remote island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard.
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Norwegian University of Science and Technology
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, abbreviated NTNU) is a public research university with campuses in the cities of Trondheim, Gjøvik, and Ålesund in Norway, and has become the largest university in Norway, following the university merger in 2016.
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Petroglyph
Petroglyphs are images created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, picking, carving, or abrading, as a form of rock art.
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Porpoise
Porpoises are a group of fully aquatic marine mammals that are sometimes referred to as mereswine, all of which are classified under the family Phocoenidae, parvorder Odontoceti (toothed whales).
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Prehistoric art
In the history of art, prehistoric art is all art produced in preliterate, prehistorical cultures beginning somewhere in very late geological history, and generally continuing until that culture either develops writing or other methods of record-keeping, or makes significant contact with another culture that has, and that makes some record of major historical events.
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Red deer
The red deer (Cervus elaphus) is one of the largest deer species.
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Reindeer
The reindeer (Rangifer tarandus), also known as the caribou in North America, is a species of deer with circumpolar distribution, native to Arctic, sub-Arctic, tundra, boreal and mountainous regions of northern Europe, Siberia and North America.
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Religious cosmology
A religious cosmology (also mythological cosmology) is a way of explaining the origin, the history and the evolution of the cosmos or universe based on the religious mythology of a specific tradition.
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Rock art
In archaeology, rock art is human-made markings placed on natural stone; it is largely synonymous with parietal art.
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Rock carvings at Alta
The Rock art of Alta (Helleristningene i Alta) are located in and around the municipality of Alta in the county of Finnmark in northern Norway.
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Rock carvings at Tennes
Rock carvings at Tennes (Helleristning i Tennes) in Balsfjord, Troms county, Norway comprise figures of prehistoric rock art (bergkunst).
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Salmon
Salmon is the common name for several species of ray-finned fish in the family Salmonidae.
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Sør-Trøndelag
Sør-Trøndelag was a county comprising the southern portion of the present-day Trøndelag county in Norway.
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Scandinavia
Scandinavia is a region in Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural and linguistic ties.
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Selbu
Selbu is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway.
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Sole (foot)
The sole is the underside of the foot.
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Steinkjer
Steinkjer is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway.
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Stjørdal
(Norwegian) or Skierde (Southern Sami) is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway.
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Stone Age
The Stone Age was a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to make implements with an edge, a point, or a percussion surface.
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Sweden
Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.
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Totem
A totem (Ojibwe doodem) is a spirit being, sacred object, or symbol that serves as an emblem of a group of people, such as a family, clan, lineage, or tribe.
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Trondheim
Trondheim (historically Kaupangen, Nidaros and Trondhjem) is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway.
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Underworld
The underworld is the world of the dead in various religious traditions, located below the world of the living.
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Whale
Whales are a widely distributed and diverse group of fully aquatic placental marine mammals.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_carvings_in_Central_Norway
