The ideas of different kinds of pain in the traditional worldview of the Ob Ugrians and Samoyeds

The feeling of pain is the most common form of sensitivity. People's ideas about illness and pain fit into the overall vision of the three-part structure, according to which the Upper world is inhabited by good and evil creatures (including humans), and the Lower world - only by evil creatures (spirits of illness, fire, floods and all that is associated with death).The definitions of kinds of pain in the Ob Ugrians and Samoyeds on the duration, area and amount of pain perception and intensity of pain are described for the first time. A significant category is represented by kinds of pain on quality, subjective feelings and localization of pain. The most precise localization of pain is on subjective basis,that demonstrates good knowledge of the Khanty, Mansi and Nenets of their anatomy. As a result of the study more than forty verbal characteristics of pain on frequency, subjective feelings and their localization were identified with language data. The data on color semantics with subjective pain perception of the indigenous minorities of Western Siberia is given. Thus, among respondents almost 1/3 did not find color matching to determine pain. No pain most of the Khanty, Mansi and Nenets associated with blue, green or grey colors. For color perception of pain characteristic is variation of the color (blue, green, grey, dark blue) with a slight prevalence of blue color. Severe pain in the traditional culture of the Mansi is associated with brown, red, blue and black colors with the dominance of red. The Khanty severe pain predominantly “colored” in red, followed by yellow, brown and purple. The red color indicates severe pain in the Nenets. Intolerable pain for the Khanty and Mansi is associated with black color, and for the Nenets - with blue, as the black color is associated with death. As we can see, the color categorization is expressed in difference of color choices depending on the intensity of pain.