He says "pyyvettähän" which means to "catch", the standard Finnish word is "pyydystää". As they made fishing nets they anticipated what kind of fish that specific net would catch for good fishing luck 🙂
I believe that the milky way was used in the title since it has significant meaning in Finno Ugric mythology. It was seen as a link between this world and 'eternity' and as a sort of pathway for the souls of our ancestors.
It's really amazing how different and diverse the Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian people's languages and lifestyles are from their cousins in Russia. And they still have their origins in common.
Very interesting and great comprehensive insights in past times, doing all stuff from Scratch on their own. Which tribe is it at around 30:00 - dressed with coins and Flower scarfes?
Russians had push out native ugorian people from history of Russia. Their descendants still live here, but completely lost his language and self-determination.
I'm reading "Hõbevalge" right now and a friend recommended this documentary to me. It was very enlightening - especially listening how the languages gradually started sounding more and more like estonian. Don't get me wrong, they were all beautiful, but...I have never heard the Karjala language before. I never realized how pretty it sounds.
There is a DVD set with all 5 of Lennart Meri documentaries dealing with the finno-ugric people. Subtitles available in Finnish, English and Russian. Unfortunately I cannot post links to the webstore, nor find a button to send you a PM on RU-vid. So if you wish the link, send me an email to uku.pyttsep at hotmail.
omg, what a find! where can I find an English version?! There supposed to be one (e.g. tinyurl [dot] com / bs7bjqy ) , but I can't find the full upload. Thanks!
