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Go look for the website jonthestoryteller.com he did all three parts and he may have them available there, or may be able to tell you how to watch them :)
Note to all: there was a finnish international film made in 2006 in finland called Jade Warrior which combined Kalevala and martial arts/wuxia genre. Very interesting and epic
Very interesting topic, i wish that Finnish mythology got more attention like norse does! PD: please get a better mic and put the camera over something stable, the constant tumble is dizzling!
Sadly we lost atleast some of our oral tradition because mens collecting these songs and storys were highly educated prudes 😂! There is for example a mention how one woman had ENTHUSIASTICLY told a whole day of RUDE kalevala type folksongs and poems to one going around collecting them and how he deemed them ALL so dirty he would not write them down or tell anything more of them 😂!
Long long time ago Finnic people lived next to Aryans. Finnis word of slave "orja" means Aryan (orja-arja). So open your mind - world is wide and holds lot of mysteries for you to solve.
There's an awful lot in this that is NOT in the Kalevala. The poem and story(s) are good enough to not need embellishment. In particular I find this "creative" an adaptation somewhat insulting to a very ancient tradition where stories remain essentially unchanged for millenia.
The Kalevala is only a couple of hundred years old, and so to say it is unchanged for millennia is nothing but a guess, and so to remark that Jon's work, a story, myths, it is insulting is somewhat disappointing. Jon is a fantastic storyteller, and has been involved in some great very wildly used projects, is well respected amongst the community, and I would rather listen to him, than your derogatory comment, for that speaks volumes about you.
@@Crecganford Lonnrott's compilation was published in 1849, his earliest notes date from 1833. He recorded by dictation the songs traditionally sung by karelian and suomi singers. Reading his notes (I assume you have) you'll see that the structure and content was well known and in any particular location was fixed by tradition. If you think that the story is only 200 years old i wonder why you consider yourself an expert on myth. If only 200 years old then what does sampo mean? After all, surely a word invented in the 19th century should be well known... Yes, perhaps "millenia" is a guess. I'm pretty sure the Old Man trickster godman is an echo of ancient shamanic traditions, and predates christianity at least. We can see the late arrival of Christianity in the last few chapters of the Kalavala. I am very happy that you prefer to consider modern storytellers than myself.
As someone of Finnish descent myself I didn't find this story particularly insulting. There is a lot of speculation about how the ancient Finns really saw the figures later portrayed in the Kalevala, none of which is really contradicted by Mason's story.
