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"Pagan beliefs, traditions, and myths survived for a long time side by side with official Lutheranism in Eastern Finland and Karelia, at least until the first part of the 20th century."
— Juha Pentikäinen in Suomalaisen lähtö: Kirjoituksia pohjoisesta kuolemankulttuurista. SKS, 1990.
(title in English: The departure of the Finn: Writings on the northern culture of death)
— Juha Pentikäinen in Suomalaisen lähtö: Kirjoituksia pohjoisesta kuolemankulttuurista. SKS, 1990.
(title in English: The departure of the Finn: Writings on the northern culture of death)
Forwarded from Wäinölä 🇫🇮 (Wäinämöinen • Eternal Sage)
According to Olaus Magnus, the Finns controlled the forces of nature using their magical powers.
Illustration from Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus (1555) shows wind being sold to a merchant.
Illustration from Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus (1555) shows wind being sold to a merchant.
Forwarded from Wäinölä 🇫🇮 (Wäinämöinen • Eternal Sage)
Boats and shamanism
As Vastokas & Vastokas point out in a discussion of the boat images of Peterborough petroglyphs in Canada, boat imagery has deep roots in both Eurasian and North American shamanism. Probably the best known example of this is the ‘spirit canoe’ of the coastal Salish of Washington State. In the rite, several Salish shamans join together in an imaginary canoe to travel to the underworld, with each shaman holding a pole or a paddle to steer the ‘canoe’. A similar visionary experience is recounted in a song performed by the Chukchi shaman Nuwat, in which the vehicle of the shamanic journey is described as a boat with a fish-bone rudder. The Chukchi also refer to the shaman drum as a boat, as do the Siberian Evenk, who think of the drum variously as a wild reindeer, a weapon and a boat.
— Antti Lahelma, University of Helsinki Institute for Cultural Research, Department of Archaeology
As Vastokas & Vastokas point out in a discussion of the boat images of Peterborough petroglyphs in Canada, boat imagery has deep roots in both Eurasian and North American shamanism. Probably the best known example of this is the ‘spirit canoe’ of the coastal Salish of Washington State. In the rite, several Salish shamans join together in an imaginary canoe to travel to the underworld, with each shaman holding a pole or a paddle to steer the ‘canoe’. A similar visionary experience is recounted in a song performed by the Chukchi shaman Nuwat, in which the vehicle of the shamanic journey is described as a boat with a fish-bone rudder. The Chukchi also refer to the shaman drum as a boat, as do the Siberian Evenk, who think of the drum variously as a wild reindeer, a weapon and a boat.
— Antti Lahelma, University of Helsinki Institute for Cultural Research, Department of Archaeology
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My boat is light and fast!
In flight it carries birds.
The smaller bird is KajañalgIn,
also carried by the boat.
My two souls say:
Let us hold on to both edges of the boat
and fly to unknown lands.
It is good to fly with you,
to sit on a spread out pelt,
in the wooden embrace,
paddle with a fishbone paddle...
Ho, ho, ho, hoy!
— Chukchi shaman Nuwat describes in his song how his souls fly through the air in a mythical vehicle
In flight it carries birds.
The smaller bird is KajañalgIn,
also carried by the boat.
My two souls say:
Let us hold on to both edges of the boat
and fly to unknown lands.
It is good to fly with you,
to sit on a spread out pelt,
in the wooden embrace,
paddle with a fishbone paddle...
Ho, ho, ho, hoy!
— Chukchi shaman Nuwat describes in his song how his souls fly through the air in a mythical vehicle
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