Jul 11
I think I'm so chill about Nolan's Odyssey because I got all my mistreated epic frustration out about that new Kullervo movie
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I think I'm so chill about Nolan's Odyssey because I got all my mistreated epic frustration out about that new Kullervo movie
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facts:
Kalevala meter can be approximated pretty well as trochaic tetrameter
at the end of the story, Väinämöinen sails off to other lands
Väinämöinen isn't subject to mortal rules about how long people live
therefore, if he lives long enough and picks up English in the meantime, he might have future adventures where he meets a pirate ninja robot monkey or the teenage mutant ninja turtles
lino prints on fabric
the way heroes in Kalevala shift between being these major godlike beings and being men with families and fields and stuff like that has me thinking
e.g. Ilmarinen is said to have forged the heaven and wrought the air's foundations, Väinämöinen was born from a continuous act of creation with the sun, moon, and stars, but later on, they're both very human. They're said to be brothers at one point, but later on aren't
Like, one way to play with this idea is to have explicit, like, forces of creation acting on the primordial world, but to inhabit it you have to shrink yourself, give up the things that made you able to shape it. When the work is done, you die as mortals
As primordial spirits, you were all kin to each other. As mortals, you aren't, you have new kin now, among the mortals
Another way to play with this idea is to go the other way. Huge acts of world-creation are in fact done by mortals. Mortals with secret skills and immense power within their discipline, but mortals nonetheless
If I was a pre-raphelite style painter painting hauntingly beautiful mythological works, I would paint a scene of the silver bride, dressed in her finery, standing tall and noble and shining pale silver, eyes gazing coldly out of the portrait, and Ilmarinen at her side, dressed in dark colors and with his face smudged with soot, reaching one hand out to touch her, but she doesn’t turn to look at him
I can just picture this perfectly in my head
Gosh dang it why can’t I just magically be amazingly good at oil painting (something I have never done or been taught?)
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Mythology Musing – Finnish Magic & The Realm of Tuonela
Finland’s approach to the supernatural is different. In the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala, magic isn't about wand-waving; it's about singing. It’s about knowing the true origin words of a thing to control it.
The underworld, Tuonela, is the dark realm of the dead where heroes face their ultimate demise and are sometimes resurrected through ancient, magical laments (Moine, 2017). And then there's Louhi, a powerful witch-queen and Mistress of the Northland, whose immense magical powers rival the greatest male heroes of the epic (Luthy, n.d.).
Finnish lore treats death and the supernatural not as an infection, but as a primal force of nature that can be commanded if your voice is strong enough.
Lemminkainen's mother collects his dismembered body and sings to Suonetar, a deity of healing, blood and veins, to beseech her aid in resurrecting her son:
Come and give us thine assistance, Harness thou thy fleetest racer, Call to aid thy strongest courser, In thy scarlet sledge come swiftly, Drive through all the bones and channels, Drive throughout these lifeless tissues, Drive thy courser through each vessel, Bind the flesh and bones securely, In the joints put finest silver, Purest gold in all the fissures.
(Kalevala, Rune XV)
Lemminkäinen's Mother, by Akseli Gallen-Kallela - Finnish National Gallery / Hannu Pakarinen, Public Domain.
The concept of "singing the true name of a thing" to bend reality is essentially audio necromancy. Whether you're locked in a digital audio workstation at 2 AM, tweaking a darkwave synth patch to find the exact resonant frequency that makes your chest vibrate, or singing along with Def Leppard at the top of your lungs, you are channeling a bit of that Kalevala magic. Sound is power.
Lönnrot, E. (1849). Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland. Translated by John Martin Crawford (Project Gutenberg).
Tuonela - Underworld (Wikipedia)
Louhi & The Kalevala (Wikipedia)
Moine, A. (2017). Des mots et des corps.
Luthy, M. J. (n.d.). The Meanings of Names in the Finnish Kalevala Epic.
Youtube, I promise you, I have never, ever, wanted to click on a recommended video less.
You're not to old to start your project. Väinämöinen was already an old man when he first set his feet upon the surface of a sea-encircled island in a region bare of forest.