tissy thinks earth is run by hobbits
tissy thinks earth is run by hobbits
Yea man the Lord of the Rings is based on many nordic things. Biggest influence is prolly "Kalevala" which is the national epic of my country.
Believe it or not but my own original language (finnish) is pretty much same than the Elven language of Tolkien's.
sounds fucked up? lol Its true.
"Tolkien's High Elvish language, Quenya, was inspired by Finnish. Tolkien taught himself Finnish in order to read the Kalevala, a 19th-century compilation of old Finnish songs and stories arranged by Elias Lönnrot into a linear epic poem and completed in 1835 and revised in the mid-1800s.
The Kalevala epic parallels the real history of the Finns. It played a key role in preserving the oral legends and songs of the Finns, which linguists think date back to preagricultural Finland. As cultural anthropologist Wade Davis notes, "it goes back to the time of the shaman ... when people lived by poetry of an oral tradition. ... By definition, the entire language was the vocabulary of the best storyteller." In 2001 Wade Davis traveled to Finland to meet Jussi Juovinen, one of Finland's last great rune singers, and to hear him sing the Kalevala. Juovinen began to learn the poems from the elders of his village when he was a child and committed the songs to memory."
that's nuts. Do finns has the same characters in their creation myth or a similar one to norwegians, swedes, english and germans?
i know the finns are an entirely different population then them and were in europe long before the germanic migration into europe. Finnish, celts, and the basques in spain are the last of the original population of europe.
Actually be more specific, which tribes to the whipping and which ones to the circumsicions. Then post up the origins of where these practices came from then you have yourself an argument.
My guess is the true intentions and specifics of these rituals won't be found online.
Okay, I'm not sure about Finns, but Celts came along with other indo-european tribes from middle Asia/Caucasus around 4000 BC. As much as I remember, Finns also migrated to today's Finland from western Siberia, but I'm not 100% sure.
The one true original population of Europe, that was here before Indo-Europeans and Ugro-Finns came, are Basques. (Therefore they could claim whole Europe as their homeland, right?)
"The Devil is not the Prince of Matter; the Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt. The Devil is grim because he knows where he is going, and, in moving, he always returns whence he came."
Yo, read a bit of this thread and my thinking is once again confirmed. Europe has soooo beautiful pagan tradition, legends and all that mess, that has been fucked up by exclusive and tyranizing Christian church that started to like smell of its dick a bit too much by that phase.
Slavic people have had some awesome pagan mythology too; for example Prophet Elijah is here worshipped as "The Thunderer" which drives a flaming chariot through heaven, which is straight up copy of ancient Slavic supreme god Perun.
"The Devil is not the Prince of Matter; the Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt. The Devil is grim because he knows where he is going, and, in moving, he always returns whence he came."
Yeah the characters are differend. Old norse word "Finn" actually refers to Sami People who are the indigenous people of the lands.
but then again the Sami people come in differend tribes and groups , even they have differend versions and stories. So i wouldnt know what to put here...
its common to see stories about how the world is build and its structure, but its often animals playing bigger role in it than humans. Altho there is a supreme god called "Ukko" which means "old man" and a list of other spirits and gods. And not sure from which direction they all come from tho...
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