Forwarded from Hyperborean Radio (Uncensored) (T.L.K.)
Illustrations from Den ældre Eddas gudesange (The Older Edda's God Songs) by Lorenz Frølich 1895
"Odin Arrives at Geirods House"
"Vidar's Land is Vali"
"The Loki Laufey's son said, "I will go with you as a servant, we two shall drive to Jötunheim""
"Thor's Goat Lamed in one Leg"
"Thor Questions Alvis"
"Menglad and Her Maidens"
"Odin Arrives at Geirods House"
"Vidar's Land is Vali"
"The Loki Laufey's son said, "I will go with you as a servant, we two shall drive to Jötunheim""
"Thor's Goat Lamed in one Leg"
"Thor Questions Alvis"
"Menglad and Her Maidens"
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An alternative Kalevala
The Finnish national epic #Kalevala, compiled by Elias Lönnrot in the 19th century and celebrated on Kalevala Day (February 28), contains decidedly Christian aspects. What if someone wrote another version, drawing on bear cults and shamanism found in Finnish folklore?
Lönnrot only used a purposefully selected fraction of the material in folk poetry archives. Other folklorists could use such material to compile quite different stories that might reflect ancient beliefs more accurately.
Juha Pentikäinen, professor of northern ethnography at the University of Lapland and Institute of Northern Culture in Tornio, northern Finland, aims to compile an alternative Kalevala in the form of a shamanic epic based on an ancient bear cult.
“The Kalevala as we know it today is really Elias Lönnrot’s epic, and it reflects his world view as a devout Christian keen to depict the Finns as a civilised people with monotheistic beliefs, as part of the contemporary nation building process,” says Pentikäinen. Lönnrot himself admitted that he could have used the same sources to compile seven different but equally valid Kalevala versions.
https://finland.fi/arts-culture/alternative-kalevala-in-the-making/
The Finnish national epic #Kalevala, compiled by Elias Lönnrot in the 19th century and celebrated on Kalevala Day (February 28), contains decidedly Christian aspects. What if someone wrote another version, drawing on bear cults and shamanism found in Finnish folklore?
Lönnrot only used a purposefully selected fraction of the material in folk poetry archives. Other folklorists could use such material to compile quite different stories that might reflect ancient beliefs more accurately.
Juha Pentikäinen, professor of northern ethnography at the University of Lapland and Institute of Northern Culture in Tornio, northern Finland, aims to compile an alternative Kalevala in the form of a shamanic epic based on an ancient bear cult.
“The Kalevala as we know it today is really Elias Lönnrot’s epic, and it reflects his world view as a devout Christian keen to depict the Finns as a civilised people with monotheistic beliefs, as part of the contemporary nation building process,” says Pentikäinen. Lönnrot himself admitted that he could have used the same sources to compile seven different but equally valid Kalevala versions.
https://finland.fi/arts-culture/alternative-kalevala-in-the-making/
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Alternative Kalevala in the making - thisisFINLAND
The Finnish national epic Kalevala leans on Christianity – how about another Kalevala based on bear cults and shamanism?
Diana and Stag Automaton
Elaborate silver automata such as this one were among the most marvelous works of art in German aristocracy.
The south German city of Augsburg specialized in courtly drinking amusements during the seventeenth century.
The base of this automaton contained a wind-up mechanism that moved it across the table. Once it stopped, the diner closest to it removed the stag's head and drank the wine from the body.
Elaborate silver automata such as this one were among the most marvelous works of art in German aristocracy.
The south German city of Augsburg specialized in courtly drinking amusements during the seventeenth century.
The base of this automaton contained a wind-up mechanism that moved it across the table. Once it stopped, the diner closest to it removed the stag's head and drank the wine from the body.
Forwarded from Hyperborean Radio (Uncensored) (T.L.K.)
Personification of Countries
Most countries in the western world are personified as women. These "goddesses" however are more than meets the eye.
Columbia is the modern incarnation of the Goddess Libertas in America, she is depicted either as nurturing or armed. She takes some hints from Isis and Hecate as the statue of Liberty, but America is the Land of "Liberty".
The Lady of the Mountain is actually part of the folklore of Iceland, with obvious elements of Icelandic history like the raven and rune stave. Mountains in Iceland are referred to as women, so she also doubles as the queen of mountains.
Britannia finds her origins in Brigantia a synchronized Gallo-Roman Athena/Brigid.
Marianne is also based off Libertas and also draws parallels to Joan of Arc, another pagan mythic figure. (She was burned as a witch).
While Germania largely served as a means with which to unify and represent a free German republic, she has grown to be reminiscent of Holle surrounded by infants.
-TLK
Most countries in the western world are personified as women. These "goddesses" however are more than meets the eye.
Columbia is the modern incarnation of the Goddess Libertas in America, she is depicted either as nurturing or armed. She takes some hints from Isis and Hecate as the statue of Liberty, but America is the Land of "Liberty".
The Lady of the Mountain is actually part of the folklore of Iceland, with obvious elements of Icelandic history like the raven and rune stave. Mountains in Iceland are referred to as women, so she also doubles as the queen of mountains.
Britannia finds her origins in Brigantia a synchronized Gallo-Roman Athena/Brigid.
Marianne is also based off Libertas and also draws parallels to Joan of Arc, another pagan mythic figure. (She was burned as a witch).
While Germania largely served as a means with which to unify and represent a free German republic, she has grown to be reminiscent of Holle surrounded by infants.
-TLK