An unfortunate mistake in the beginning, it was Ilmatar who drifted pregnant in the sea for 700 years, and she gave birth to Väinämöinen. Olipa impi, ilman tyttö, kave luonnotar korea. Piti viikoista pyhyyttä, iän kaiken impeyttä ilman pitkillä pihoilla, tasaisilla tanterilla. Kantoi kohtua kovoa, vatsantäyttä vaikeata vuotta seitsemän satoa, yheksän yrön ikeä; eikä synny syntyminen, luovu luomatoin sikiö.
I finn here. The SAD is affecting me more and more the older I get. As a kid, a teen and young adult, I didn't even know it was a thing, but not as I've passed 40, I noticed the winter blues hitting me harder and harder. Granted, I'm a summer person to the core. I love warm weather, the long bring days. I absolutely love biking in the summer and I do long biking trips. I just love the brightness and the warmth of summer and conversely, I dread the darkness of winter. About people exercising outside, by observations differ. Usually people here seem to go walking, biking or whatever during the bring summer months. It's almost like when the cows are let out to pasture for the first time in the spring. People are out in numbers during the summer, but most seem to disappear as the fall and winter come about. I do love the winter scenery when it all white, but even now when I think of it, I feel really heavy. For me the best thing would be to move to southern Europe for at least a few months of winter to get at least some sunlight and maybe continue my summer hobbies to degree.
Sauna is so gooooood. It's just so perfeckt place to relax and for my point, nobody care about the the naked thing when ur in sauna. Everybody is the same in sauna and naked. And its nothing to do whit whit sex or other wise. And I have so many good memories whit my friends when we have being in sauna and have sauna beer.
there was an alleged ufo related incident in kuopio in the northern savo region in the 60s.basically someone found piece of an ufo scrap metal from an lake.the metal wasn't magnetic and it the metal itself was made material.there hasn't been any investigation regarding to it after that
I'm Finnish, and while I've never celebrated kekri as such, it's interesting to see that our local church still does a sort of "harvest festival" in the autumn. My family has a farm, so we're often asked to provide some stalks of grain and such as props. So it might be that christianity absorbed at least a distant memory of the old festivals in some form, even though the church one is basically just thanking God for the year's harvest and then having a communal meal after. That being said, I do kinda get the impulse. I'm not a pagan or a neo-pagan, but I do still get this feeling when the harvest is in and the darkness starts to creep in and there's a chill in the air, kinda like "It is done. The harvest is in, we have food for the winter, we'll be all right. Time to celebrate the work done and prepare to rest". Even the darkness feels welcoming, kinda like a blanket after a flurry of activity and light and chaos. Like "all is good now, go take a nap".
So nice to see new content from you! I used to live in Ireland, Cork for a short time and fell in love with the country and it's ancient traditions.❤ I really like autumn, Samhain and Kekri. Autumn is truly a time of gratitude and slowing down. In Helsinki there's at least one burning of Kekripukki (a bonfire), which I think is quite a recent thing. Also some student organizations may have Kekri "sitsit", a kind of dinner party where people wear national costumes and eat seasonal food. Go raibh maith agat☘️ for the great video, I look forward to future ones!
the best explanation of what an elf/troll/goblin/etc. is that i ever heard is that they are where the self in the other and the other in the self come together. since i've heard that it's become my working definition, and hasn't failed me yet.
It's nice to see a native celt talk about his culture and similarities to two distant brothers! With regards to elves, they were originally deceptive spirits such as the Nyx or those dwelling in bogs that caused mirages and lights (hence the derivation from *alb- meaning "bright, shining") that led men astray. Later elves have come to be all kinds of beings, and with influence from Christianity they became more like angels. It's been quite a few hectic and painful years, so I haven't celebrate "dīs" for a few years, taking the time to enjoy the darkness and the cold, but happy fall and harvest to whoever is watching this video! Whatever your path, enjoy fall and its warm blanket of darkness and the approaching new year! 🍂🕯 I still wish we would take more care of our heritage in Finland and not focus so much on Halloween or similarly commercialised holidays (even though they were original peaceful celebrations).
When I am in Finland I celebrate kekri in Ilomantsi by the lake Koitere . I put outside my own wooden Iku-Turso statue and let it be there while staying in my cottage . Eating berries and mushroom is my way to celebrate kekri. My kekri is connected with our epic KALEVALA . Just amazing feeling staying alone near the big battle fields and listening the moaning of the souls of perished Russian soldiers wanting to return home ( wind between the trees) . Tapio gives my fire wood and Ahti gives daily fish.
I just don't like autumn because everything is dying. Of course trees don't really die, but they do drop their leaves (except for evergreens) and look dead. Only a few bird species are left and no insects. No wonder November is called the month of death in Finnish. Back in the old times autumn was the time of plenty, after the harvest time. With less ways to preserve food than today, folks needed to eat the extra before it got spoiled. A good reason to have a big party lasting for days! Afterwards you could come up with fancy religious or other explanations for partying hard and eating more than your fill.
Great to see an upload from you again, welcome back!! Can it be possible that the festivals mentioned in your video was also a reason for villagers of yesteryear to have a huge last get together before everyone were kind of isolated or hunkered down for protection from the icy winter months? Just love the manner in which you talk story, whilst at the same time teach new generations about the beautiful ways in which our ancestors revered our home, earth. Thank you!!
i also love autumn! i love looking at the trees and their changing colours before the leaves fall. autumn is a time to get cozy and warm, maybe slow down a bit in prepare for winter. :)
Hi mate, good to see a video as always The suffix 'blót' doesn't actually relate to the english word blood. It's a totally separate root which died off in old english and has connotations of offering or sacrifice all the way back to proto Indo european. It has no surviving english cognate. The unfortunate truth about the álfablót, largely an event local to a certain part of sweden, is that we haven't the foggiest what it was about really. There seems to have been libations of some kind involved, which is extremely common in these types of events. Other than that, the only thing that can be safely guessed is sacrifices (possibly those libations included) being made to elves, which in that cultural context at that stage of northern germanic history may have been comparable to the huldafólk of iceland, ie placating the hidden beings
it's always creepy when different cultures across such a wide area have almost the same story. Makes you think it could have been something actually real.
Communal saunas are the best as small saunas in flats are ofthen dry. Housing-complex shared ones can be great. You probably live in or visit Helsinki. Harju(n) sauna and Sompasauna are great. The former is in Kallio, so you can very easily reach it via public transport. Best during wintery evenings. Wood-burning, and separate F/M. Sompasauna is a bit of a classic hippy thing. It's free for everyone, wood-heated and mixed genders. It's moving to Mustikkamaa atm.
This channel has provided me much new information about Finnish folklore and religion even though i'm a Finn. Perhaps my family has been more removed from the ancient's beliefs than some others and therefore nobody could tell much. Although many aspects have been nevertheless implicitly present - observable to me - in many traditions and in the way people think.
Was just about to ask that as púca/púci has goat horns and hooves, like a satyr. Goat like elements. And the way púci is pronounced is exactly how pukki is pronounced.
