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The book reconstructs the traditional religion of Perm-region Finno-Ugric peoples using medieval chronicles, missionary accounts and later ethnographic collections. It surveys funerary and ancestor cults, household and village sacrifice, personified spirits and nature deities, agricultural festivals, disease-causing spirits and the practices of ritual specialists. Regional comparisons highlight differences between Syrjan and Votjak communities and the influence of trade and missionary contacts. The narrative traces the gradual and uneven spread of Christianity, the survival and adaptation of older rites, and compiles folk beliefs and ritual forms preserved in later field reports and oral traditions.