Originally Posted by Bah Humbug

Now Finno-Ugric is fascinating for the current spread of where it's spoken. And I'm sure you know, folding it all back together, that Tolkien was a student of Finnish and it influenced some of his fantasy languages. When I was reading about Dyatlov Pass a few weeks ago I was surprised to see it was spoken by the native Mansi out there.

Did you see the research tracing mythology around the world, including from Europe all the way to the North Americans?