huitsinhauskaa kalevalanpäivää.
Oi suomalainen kulttuuri. Mitä hienoja asioita oletkaan tuottanut pitkän historiasi aikana. Joista nyt en oikein osaa selittää mitään mieltä ylentävää, vaikka mieleen tulee kyllä vaikka minkälaista kulttuuriperintöä ja hienoja, vähän nykyaikaisempiakin asioita. Ja jotenkin on pakko kirjoittaa suomeksi vaikka tietää, että ehkä vähän voisi promoitoida tässä suomalaista kulttuuria ulkomaalaisille livejournalin välityksellä. Voisin tehdä Kalevalasta seksikästä ja siistiä!
Sorry for Finnish interlude guys.
I'm here to tell you about The Kalevala, without a doubt the sexiest national epic ever written. Whatever you want, Kalevala has it! I'll list.
1. Not even Apple could come up with a must-have gadget like Sampo, which manufactures salt and gold, and probably also works as e-mail, cellphone and mp3 player.
2. Romantic twists! Everybody is in love with this one babe from Pohjola.
3. Kullervo, who has the most tragic destiny EVER. You don't believe me? Try this. His whole family gets slaughtered by his uncle, except for his mother who gives birth to Kullervo, who gets sold as a slave. His slave owner's wife bakes stones into his bread. Eventually he finds his family, but life isn't fair: he seduces a girl in the woods, who turns out to be his sister. She offs herself. Kullervo kills his uncle for revenge, and his uncle's family. He returns home but his family is dead. What happens then? Read and find out!*
4. A Bible-spinoff - Marjatta gets pregnant after eating a cowberry (puolukka in Finnish). I know there was a reason why they tasted so bitter and nasty! Her son is born and preceeds to pwn Väinämöinen, this old guy who's like the "hero" of Kalevala.
5. Lemminkäinen, a total playboy. Kalevala drinking game! Finish your drink every time Lemminkäinen gets a new wife. It's cool, though, as he's really hot and even gets resurrected at one point.
6. Easily the coolest creation myth ever: a big bird lands an egg on a knee of this goddess who's chilling in the ocean. It's hot so she moves her knee, the egg falls and breaks and the world is born out of the egg. Hell yeah.
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* Or just read this: he kills himself.
Sorry for Finnish interlude guys.
I'm here to tell you about The Kalevala, without a doubt the sexiest national epic ever written. Whatever you want, Kalevala has it! I'll list.
1. Not even Apple could come up with a must-have gadget like Sampo, which manufactures salt and gold, and probably also works as e-mail, cellphone and mp3 player.
2. Romantic twists! Everybody is in love with this one babe from Pohjola.
3. Kullervo, who has the most tragic destiny EVER. You don't believe me? Try this. His whole family gets slaughtered by his uncle, except for his mother who gives birth to Kullervo, who gets sold as a slave. His slave owner's wife bakes stones into his bread. Eventually he finds his family, but life isn't fair: he seduces a girl in the woods, who turns out to be his sister. She offs herself. Kullervo kills his uncle for revenge, and his uncle's family. He returns home but his family is dead. What happens then? Read and find out!*
4. A Bible-spinoff - Marjatta gets pregnant after eating a cowberry (puolukka in Finnish). I know there was a reason why they tasted so bitter and nasty! Her son is born and preceeds to pwn Väinämöinen, this old guy who's like the "hero" of Kalevala.
5. Lemminkäinen, a total playboy. Kalevala drinking game! Finish your drink every time Lemminkäinen gets a new wife. It's cool, though, as he's really hot and even gets resurrected at one point.
6. Easily the coolest creation myth ever: a big bird lands an egg on a knee of this goddess who's chilling in the ocean. It's hot so she moves her knee, the egg falls and breaks and the world is born out of the egg. Hell yeah.
More accurate information
* Or just read this: he kills himself.