Khanty Amp dog could be considered as an important personage in the Khanty folklore a friend (sometimes equal to a human) and the guard of a man. According to Khanty beliefs, the dog can communicate with the world of spirits and the dead (Filchenko, 2012, p. 241). Birds as personages: North American: Denaina GgugguyniRaven. The Denina stories describe Raven as a trickster and demiurge that can change his appearance to look like anything he wants, including persons (mostly masculine but also feminine old grandma). Nutaqi goose: in one story described as a female, a young girl, a girlfriend of Raven (Kalifornsky, 1991:83-87; Kan, 1990). Siberian: Selkup Pge Hazel Grouse (this personage was able to change his appearance transforming into a young man and also demonstrated shamanic functions of healing and recovering a dead person) (Skazki, 1996); Qarra Crane (Becker, 1978).

Khanty Krs a mythic bird, described as a creature similar to a gigantic eagle intelligent and able to speak human language; Luli Sandpiper, a personage in the myth about the origin of the earth, brought soil from the water during the flood; (Kulemzin, 2006). Plants as personages: North American: Denaina Chu Spruce; Eseni Cottonwood (these trees were described as persons without partners, the Spruce was covered with sores and filled with pus) (Kalifornsky, 1991, p. 79). Supernaturals: Anglo-Saxon: Only a small group of Anglo-Saxon anthroponyms include elements that denote sacred and supernatural things. The name Woden (the main God in Scandinavian mythology) could be taken as a classic illustration. Such names as Osric (Os, God, deity, divine being), Ingild (derived from the name of a deity), Elfred (from Elf) are not so frequent (Ponomareva, 2008, p. 64). Sacred components that form a basis for these names influenced greatly on the tradition of name formation. From

135-137). Societies of hunters and gatherers demonstrate close ties between religion and folklore. Siberian and North American indigenous people preserved mythological elements of world perception, pre-scientific understanding of society and religion. North American: Tlingit Ganook the Sitting One (is considered to be the senior and the most ancient of all Tlingit deities. Myth attributes to Ganook the original power over the whole earth. There could be an etymological connection between 95 96 Alexandra A. Kim-Maloney et al. / Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences 154 ( 2014 ) 92 98

Ganook, according to myths, is an anthropomorphic creature. Yil Trickster, Raven is endowed with the ability to change his appearance constantly. Sometimes he is simply a raven whose name he is bearing, sometimes a human being, and sometimes he acts as an invisible spirit. His major pastime is changing from one appearance to another (Kan, 1990, p. 57). Siberian: Selkup Nop God, upper deity (etymologically connected with the word *nu meaning upper part; L/ Lsi evil spirit (this name is often modified by the words of location, natural phenomena, functions or spheres of influence and so on: lall spirit of lower world, literally, lower spirit; gyllz earth spirit, mergiloz wind spirit; tkyllz water spirit; maillz taiga spirit; surullz hunting spirit; nnells eider spirit (Kim, 1997, p. 121126); Ls ira Davil-old man; Koar Mammoth, supernatural creature.