𝑙𝑢𝑛𝑎 𝑜𝑙𝑚𝑜𝑠 🌘 (holyrites) wrote in nevermore_ooc, @ 2016-04-14 17:40:00 |
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'Are you kidding me? When is this bitch gonna stop writing these lists?' Never. Never is the answer, rhetorical question asker, and I don't appreciate your slightly misogynistic tone, thank you very much. The Finns! They've been there Finlanding for fucking aaaages and even when Christianity came along they were sort of like 'that's cool and all, but we're probably just gonna kinda mix it with the stuff we've already got, yeah?' It's an oral tradition, so it was all passed down through epic poems and folklore before someone decided to write that shit down, yo. It shares features with some Estonian, Baltic and Scandinavians mythology. The characters of the gods are rather reflective of the severe living conditions in Finland, cause it gets goddamn freezing. So they tend to be really focused on survival things: weather, health, illness, food, hunting, etc. Bears were super special and sacred and their name wasn't even said outloud - instead it gets super cute names like esikämmen ("mead-paw"), otso ("browed one"), kontio ("dweller of the land"), metsän kultaomena ("the golden apple of the forest"). They were also big believers in magic and shamans, and time was considered to be continous, with no end and no beginning. • Myths, Culture and Feelings from the Ancient Finland - • The Kalevala - the national saga of Finland, and this is a page about the Kalevala as you'll probably need that to help you navigate it. • Finnish paganism - • Ahti - either the the god of the sea/ fishing (with handlebar moustache and beard of moss!), or a fierce sea-going warrior... or both. • Ilmarinen - The Hepasteus of the Finnish pantheon, who the god who can invent and blacksmith anything at all, but he's unlucky in love, the poor bugger. • Kullervo - Kullervo is the only tragic character in Finnish mythology. Gonna straiht up quote from wiki: "He survived a massacre of his tribe and was raised by his enemy Untamo's tribe. Kullervo grew up thinking his family was dead; he also recognized that he was raised by people who hated him and whom he did not trust, knowing that they were his people's murderers. Later, he was sold into slavery and mocked and tormented further. When he finally ran away, he finds his family, only to lose them again, and unknowingly seduces and has sexual relations with his sister, whom he thought dead. When she finds out it was her own brother who seduced her, she commits suicide. Kullervo becomes mad with rage, returns to Untamo and his tribe, exterminates them using his powers, and commits suicide." It's flat out a story about how child abuse fucks up the adults they will become. Holy shit, that's not usually the area myths go for but this one is right into it. • Lemminkäinen - Ladies, throw those panties on the stage because here he is, the hero of the Kalevala, babely, young and good-looking, with wavy red locks. (His mum totally rescues him from the underworld when he dies, puts his body back together and brings him back to life, but he's the hero. Rude.) • Lempo - started out as a god of love and fertility, but after Christianity came was turned into a (sometimes female) erratic and devious spirit, because love can be devious and erratic. • Peko - Estonian/Finnish god of crops, especially barley and brewing • Sampsa Pellervoinen - a dude who sows all vegetation on earth, all the forests, swamps, meadows, and rock lands too. He's described as a slender youth carrying a bag/basket around his neck. He appears as a god of fertility, who has to be ritually awakened every summer. • Tapio - god of the forest and the hunt. He's very Green Man imagary, complete with a beard of lichen and eyebrows of moss. • Väinämöinen - a god, hero, and the main character in the Kalevala. He's the god of chants, songs and poetry and basically made the world. He's a twinkling old dude and, oh by the by, he's the inspiration for Gandalf. • Ajatar - the 'Devil of the Woods', she's an evil female spirit who can show up as a snake or dragon. She's supposed to be the mother of the devil (like I said, the Finns liked Christianity enough to get it all mixed in) and brings pestilence and plague wherever she goes. • Ilmatar - the virgin spirit of the air, shows up in the Kalevala. • Louhi - a queen and witch (life goals) who can change shape and enchant the fuck out of everyone. In the Kalevala she's the main antagonist. But she's also got a bunch of super hot daughters and everyone always wants to marry them, meaning she gets to set super great fairytale-difficult tasks if they want them. Outside of the Kalevala though, she's probably just another name for... • Loviatar - the blind daughter of Tuoni (god of death) Tuonetar (underworld queen). She's the goddess of death and disease and when she gave birth to nine sons they were called the Nine Diseases. • Mielikki - goddess of forests and the hunt, who basically invented bears and if you get on her bad side she won't let you hunt in her forests anymore. She was a badass healer who went around helping all the injured animals and if humans ask just right she'll help them out too. • Päivätär - the goddess of the sun and the moon. When she's the sun goddess she's called Päivätär ('maiden of the Day') but when she's the moon goddess she's called Kuutar ('Maiden of the Moon'). She's basically a gorgeous goddess who actually two gorgeous goddesses who's actually just the one gorgeous goddess. • Tuonetar - queen of the underworld, mother of monsters, keeper of fancy goblets of poison • Kalma - the goddess of death and decay whose name means The Stench of Corpses. Nice! She hangs around graveyards and travels around on a cloud of stench. She's accompanied by a snake-tailed turn-you-to-stone dog called Surma. • Vellamo - goddess of water, lakes and seas, and can also control the wind and the storms at sea. She wears a blue dress made of sea form and she has a magical cow that lives on a field at the bottom of the sea. Yep. • Näkki - a male shapeshifting water spirits who usually appear in human form and they like to live in murky pools, wells, docks, piers and under river bridges. Their victims are mostly little kids that get yanked into the water when they lean out over it. They're, like, suuuuuper beautiful from the front but they have the hairest ugliest backs. But another story says that they look like 'ugly fishermen' who can turn themselves into a gorgeous woman who is super busty (or has 3 tits apparently). Less sex related, he can turn into a silvery fish, horse or hound. • Hiisi - troll dudes • Menninkäinen - 'leprechaun-like inhabitant of the forests. Fairy tale depictions often involve riddling, dominance struggles and favors elicited. Menninkäinens were probably originally thought to be spirits of dead people' |