White Night Magic - FINLAND 

Bhayavaan ko hi bharat me janma milta hai.

❓Vem gjort denna videon... Idiotka... 🇫🇮

Köszi! Magyarország is nagyon szép 👏🏻 Greetings from Finland🇫🇮

I couldn't agree more with you! They only teach foreign history and main religions in our schools. They teach us about the last few hundreds of years of our own history, but nothing else - they let us believe that there was nothing else in Finland but peasants and filthy pagans before Christianity came here and that's it. It's such a shame, considering that our country was very wealthy and ruled by many great kings known worldwide. We know almost nothing about that, or about our own ancient religion in general - and many of us are not even curious about it. :(

It's funny how the olympian gods are talked about but the finnish ones are barely mentioned in school

i say we need to ditch religion and replace it with heritage as a school subject. -31 from Finland

Ukon oikea nimi on Perkele. Ei mulla muuta.

I agree

Hello from Finland!

how beautifully described:)

you made a simpleton tear abit

To me they Look like angels.

No

bruh no u are an elf

No

Me, a 155.5cm/5'1foot adult Finn: I mean... You're not wrong... But which type of elf are we talking bout here? XD

@@m.p3982 oi voi voi!!

@@m.p3982 no eipä erotu muista pohjoismaista ollenkaan. Paitsi kieli tietysti. Olen asunut muissa maissa ja kyllästymiseen asti sain kuulla kuinka Suomi on venäläinen. Olin tosi iloinen, kun joku yhdisti Suomen pohjoismaihin.

@@blackcoffeebeans6100 Skandinavia ei oo sama asia kuin pohjoismaat...

@@aaro2876 Pohjoismaihin kuuluvat myös Skandinavian maat. Pohjoismaat ovat Suomi, Ruotsi, Norja, Islanti ja Tanska. Katso vaan koulukirjat tai sitten vain googlaa nämä tiedot.

@@blackcoffeebeans6100 Ehkä sun pitäisi katsoa niitä koulukirjoja. Sehän on vain fakta että pohjoismaat ja skandinavia ei ole sama asia.

And beautiful women

@@trumpjongun8831 Beautiful women are on this video.

@@christiankhoury9343 Sour grapes!

blacksheep806 I’m pretty sure they are witches

Elves my friend, definitely elves.

I fully agree with you, bro.

i am a finn, it's magic few times. rest is chaos

anyways, i believe life is a cyclic thing. we will experience everything

you are right, let us hope for the best. Will be there in next winter to see the aurora borealis

@@Frog89mad It doesn't mean that if your mind is chaos, that the whole Finland is. Finland as we used to know it is the one of the best places for equilibrium of living. You have vast and clean nature alongside the great cities and towns. People here are very helpful, yet so reserved they won't disturb you unless you demand so. I can't imagine many places so good to live like Northern countries. You should be happy and proud to be born here, yet you just neglect all the good things and focus only bad things. You should try positive thinking, it helped me a lot!

Well, it depends on what do you count as a white night. Officially, Sun does set in southern Finland, but it changes straight from dusk to dawn, so it does not get pitch black at any time. This dusk-dawn period lasts for 4 hours at minimum. I'd say it doesn't get dark for a month or 1,5 months in southern Finland. But at the very northest of Finland, Sun has been shining for 2 weeks now, and next time it will set at the end of July.

They were extensions, heavy ones!

Is this really NSFW in the USA? ... a very different culture... :)

Sakari Maaranen We are extremely strait-laced here :(

At least at work we are. In most offices the bikini shots would raise eyebrows.

in the great USA, scenes of violence are glorified and scenes that even hint at sensuality are taboo... except for the reels of glorious pr0n....

annie bodnar Good point. Sensuality is more taboo than prOn. A real sign of emotional distress in our nation.

Similar traditions are spread to a very large area. Midsummer is celebrated with bonfires at least in England, Germany, France, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Spain and Portugal.

Kai Marcad oh Waauw thank you for the information!🌸

@@KaiMarcad in all The Nordic countries actually. Also in Sweden.

The traditions you see on this video are part of the ancient religion of Finland :) Nowadays, some Finns practice this religion, but many consider themselves as Atheists or Agnostics. However, Christianity became Finland's official religion in (about) 1150 when Swedish people invaded Finland; they oppressed and killed thousands of Finns, forced many to speak Swedish instead of Finnish and banned our original religion. Even after this Swedes treated Finns pretty badly and I guess it's one of the reasons why many Finns hate Swedes. Today, I'd say that only about 20-30% of Finnish people are TRUE Christians and the amount of them is decreasing. We haven't completely forgotten our real gods etc. and we Finns still speak Finnish. I guess that in future Finns get more interested in our ancient, ' ' paganic ' ' religion and I really hope that it becomes our official religion someday.

Well as a (Finnish speaking) Finn myself. I think there is a reality check time. No one actually knows what happened back then. The historical records are scarce and many times written several years after the fact with strong political and/or religious motives. But we know that the S-W area of Finland became part of the Swedish realm at about the same time the whole Kingdom of Sweden was born - and from the 'get go' the population in the Finnish part of the country seem to have had the very same duties and rights as on the other side of the Gulf of Bothnia. Finnish nobility with clearly Finnish names took part in the election of Kings very early on etc. Besides it being totally anachronistic to speak of 'colonialism' at that time of the history - it is also totally misleading. Finns were not treated better or worse than the subjects on the Swedish side. It is of course quite probable that this political process was not totally peaceful, but there is no indication that it was any way more violent on 'Finland' side that it was on the 'Swedish' side. What is more - the administration could not care less about the language of the common folks. At times the court language was German and/or Polish and later French. There is no indication that Swedish language was forced on anyone. Later of course the situation developed when administration evolved and the language of administration and Law was (of course) Swedish (but despite that the people could go to local courts and present their case in Finnish). In practice this then lead to the situation where people that raised to administration had to learn Swedish - and then very often the next generation became Swedish speakers - they were not 'Swedes' but 'Finns' that changed their language. However, please note that there were no intended effort to force this - it just happened. Summa summarum - I think you expressed totally simplistic, naive and wrong view of what happened. This was history - it just happened that way - and what happened back then because of 'historical reasons' is no basis for hating anyone living today.

Wow you're being very nitpicky. Okay, I must have exaggerated when I talked about Swedish colonialists. I know very well that they are not really called that, but I truly wonder, because what they did was quite similar to what Western Europeans did to Native Americans, for example. As you may know, Southern Finland is called Uusimaa - ''New Land'' (Nyland in Swedish). Western European colonialists called America ''The New World''...not a big difference. Also, from 1300's to 1900's Swedish people were always ''better folk'' and many of them still think they are. Just like you said, the language of administration and law was ' ' of course ' ' Swedish. Why wasn't it Finnish, why couldn't Swedish colo... immigrants learn Finnish since the original people of the area spoke Finnish? It's quite obvious that Swedes have never respected Finns. I guess you didn't quite get my point. I agree with you, history is not a reason to hate anyone, but you can't be so ignorant that you'd say that people don't do so. Many people hate other people simply because of their history. Like many Finns hate Russians because of Isoviha and the WW2 etc.. Many black americans hate white americans for what slave owners did a long time ago (of course that situation is different and black people are still treated worse), but these were just few examples. Of course people shouldn't hate for historical reasons because it's not going to change anything, but that just happens.

krizzuish Sorry for the delay - been busy. Seems that I was not clear enough. It is of course good if you agree that happenings in the distant past in the history should not be a basis for how different groups see and treat each others nowadays. But as you say some/many people nevertheless do so. And one reason are the stories and myths that are being told in modern times. And so it would be nice if those stories would at least have some factual basis. And - I'm sorry to say - your version of the history is anachronistic and more or less totally false. By spreading those stories with no basis in reality, you (probably not on purpose) fuel the totally unnecessary enmity towards one integral part of our nation. First of all it is totally inane to claim that the early relations of ancient 'Sweden' and 'Finland' were in any form colonialist. The whole concept does not make any sense before much later when the economic structures and early nationalistic ideas had been developed - that would be sometime late 1700's. As I already said there are so few historical records that no one really knows what happened in Finland back in the late 1100's and early 1200's - but the version I present below is quite believable because it is actually based on the documents we have and on our knowledge on how the kingdoms generally did get established elsewhere in Europe. At the end of the first millennium the areas what are now called Sweden and Finland were not unified under any central government. The basic political unit was a village or a collection of neighbouring villages - chiefdoms. These chiefdoms had volatile political connections with each other - constantly making allegiances and breaking them. The concept of being a 'Finn' or a 'Swede' did not exist - one identified with his/her family and tribe. Due to the sea route the South-West area of current Finland had closer connections with the Swedish side of Gulf of Bothnia than they did with the inland 'Finnish' tribes. Thus quite soon (order of 100 years) after initial form of the Kingdom of Svea (which at that time was much smaller than the present day Sweden) had been born, the 'Finnish' areas of Varsinais-Suomi and Satakunta were joined in. Most probably that was not totally peaceful process - but there is no indication that it was more violent on the Finnish side than it was in the Swedish side of the sea. The Finnish chiefdoms on the West coast probably saw many benefits in joining this new powerful political entity - kingdom. The first 'crusade' to Finland seems to have been an 'after the fact' political show 'displaying of the flag' - a move intended to amalgamate the new area and also to send a message to the non-belonging tribes in the East. So there was no "Sweden" that conquered some "Finland" - instead it was a amalgamation of smaller chiefdoms into a bigger political entity spanning both sides of a narrow sea. Later the areas of Uusimaa, Häme etc. were included in the realm. The name of Uusimaa/Nyland (New Land) is quite natural - it was a new area included after the idea of a unified realm had been already established. But take note - even in case the acquisition of the area was due to military action there were 'Finns' from Varsinais-Suomi and Satakunta in the conquesting army. All the information we have seem to indicate that the subjects on the Finnish side were treated as good or bad as were the subjects on the Swedish side. Throughout the history of the combined "Sweden-Finland" the "Finnish" peasants had the very same rights and responsibilities as their "Swedish" counterparts. As a related side note, I want to remark that for example - while far from perfect - the protection of the land ownership of the peasants in the Kingdom of Sweden was truly exceptional when compared to other Kingdoms in Europe. This is totally contrary to the way later colonialist nations treated the natives in the colonies. Regarding the status of Swedish language. Of course it is totally natural that the language of the bigger and wealthier part of the realm became the administrative language - especially as Finnish did not even exist in written form! To see this as an indication of some purposeful oppression - and to 'require' anything else - is plainly absurd. As a historical process this eventually lead to the situation where on the Finnish side of the realm Swedish language became largely the mark of elite and Finnish language marked peasantry. However that did not prevent Finnish speakers from rising in the society - they just learned Swedish - and that was it. And most definitely there was no 'evil plan' behind this - this is just how things sometimes turn out in reality. And besides it was just this 'Swedish' elite that later (in the 1800's) decided to develop Finnish language to a level were it could be used as a language of administration and science - and who largely changed their language (back) to Finnish.

Sigh. I know everything you said and that's kinda like the whole point. I'm quite sure that the things you called ''stories and myths'' are not there without a reason - why would Finnish people hate Swedes like just for fun? It doesn't make any sense. Of course what you said about the language could be true - ' 'this eventually lead to the situation where on the Finnish side of the realm Swedish language became largely the mark of elite and Finnish language marked peasantry' '. Maybe it wasn't an evil plan but that's just exactly what it seems like. But the language aside, I mainly answered to the first actual question about the religion. The ancient, ' ' paganic ' ' religion of Finnish people was banned after Sweden started to take more power in Finland. I find this wrong and I definitely don't believe this has been as peaceful as you may think since I've read a lot about the Viking history. But I have to agree that it must have been difficult in Sweden as well, not just in Finland. And obviously there have been some Finnish people who thought that they would benefit from Christianity, but it was still wrong to ban our ancient religion. And it's quite obvious that it was the Swedish elite that did this since they had most of the power. I'm glad that there has been so many strong Finns so our religion is not completely forgotten.

Probably stole it from the finns because we invented it fool

@@suissais4732 euhm nobody know that)

@@julvetroux4828 yes we do we finns invented the sauna the russians got it from us and the karelians but it originally came from here

@@suissais4732 do you have official proofs of scientists about this ? Any book or science artikle?

@@julvetroux4828 what do sienticts have to do with saunas just Google it and dont Look at russian propaganda the sauna is a finnish invention and the word sauna is finnish we finns have built saunas for 2000 years ofcourse there are similar rooms in other european cultures but they arent saunas they are sweat houses the russian sauna is somewhat different to the finnish sauna culture but still its clearly been vopied from the karelians and finns

Our race is fine, thanks for caring though :) Other animal species and their races have much bigger problems with surving than we do :)

@@leopartanen9431 Sheep

Thank you not seeing finns as mongols. The experts say blondies are disappearing and the last blond willbe a finn.

Lorien I'm sorry but it was Christians that tried (and largely succeeded) to destroy this. The area of Finland was officially Christian before America was found by Columbus (see Swedish Crusades) though some paganism survived through oral tradition. Christians labeled all this to be from the devil. They managed to destroy our religion. Ukko is only briefly mentioned during this celebration. He used to be our supreme god. Romanticized? Everything in this video is true except the face painting and I think it's seven blossoms instead of eight but there may be variations.

@@WyrdHag *Jews

@Michael VR Jews. What have they got to do with this video?

Kot Blini Fuck you, seriously.

I truly hope she's not serious..

@The one who's got the whole world Another idiot!

It's just fake provocation.

Trent Steele Not yet, not even close.

you want to shame the humankind..to be like you..bitter

What? You are talking abot Sweden now. Finland has not got that much refugees. In the matter of fact least than many other countries.

you have no soul..just bitterness

A bg hassle of nothing

Hahaha funnily enough my friendgroup does do a lot of bonfire dancing. Just because you don't, don't generalise