The Kalevala

i have been perusing this work.  It is both a distillation of local folklore or more properly oral intellectual endeaver that drew on long established local traditions and also a distillation of european poetic intellectual endeaver.  For the record, it informed the creation of Wagners Ring trilogy along with tolkein's Lord of hte frings.

it is possible to observe these motifs and the aspects of intellectual endeavor through them.  something is going on here that most of us have actually put aside as unimportant today.  We are now educated into a different culture and world altogether.  It is enough to at least look to it.

Now i am going to throw an alternate history at you that should curl your toes.

Understand that  the Text of homer, the Illiad, is actually situated on the Baltic in finland and all placenames are in order here including Troy.  this took place in 1179 bc.  it was a conflict between the sea and the land which is a central motif.  when troy fell, odysses took off and cruised the islands into the north Sea along the coast of Norway.  The islads are the motif of mediation between land and sea.

Now understand that a mere twenty years later in 1159 BC, the global Atlantis culture collapsed through geologic subsidence,  this killed all crops in northern europe for twenty years.  The population of the baltic were then forced to migrate South to the Aegean in an attempt to survive and all their seamen headed the lonbg way around through gibraulter.  This sounds a lot like our Sea peoples and hte dorian invaders.

Here is what is crazy,  those left behind began optimizing the production of milk and became Dairymen rather than cattlemen.  After all the cattle could survive and milk allowed humans to survive a wreaked ecology.  This produced the first large population of white europeans and the dairy economy produced a massive population surplus quickly.  Recall the Basques.  This quickly repopulated all of europe over several centuries and also populated the USA over a couple of centuries.

Recall that Romes real problem with germanic tribes were that they actually got larger while rome, not so much.  this was all about economic protocols and the Dairy farmers won out in the long term.

Today finnland has the largest per capita consumption of milk anywhere.

My takehome of course is that these two texts literally came from the same folks three thousand years apart and it lets us understand the odd white monoculture in Europe and just how recent it all is.  I should make something clear though.  the growing white population actually subsumed not so white genetics all through Europe and has been doing the same to all the americas.

non dairy farmers do not leap at the oppotunity to become dairymen anywhere because you become a slave to your herd even if your wife is making a lot of babies.  That is why it took the climate collapse to make over the northern cattlemen into dairymen..

The Kalevala

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/400869.The_Kalevala

The Kalevala is the great Finnish epic which, like the Iliad and Odyssey, grew out of a rich oral tradition with prehistoric roots. During the first millennium of our era, speakers of Uralic languages (outside the Indo-European group) who had settled in the Baltic region developed an oral poetry that was to last into the nineteenth century. This poetry provided the basis of the Kalevala, assembled by the Finnish scholar Elias Lonnrot and published in its final form in 1849. It played a central role in the process towards Finnish independence and inspired some of the greatest music of Sibelius.

GenresPoetryMythologyClassicsFictionFantasyFinnish LiteratureFolklore

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679 pages, Paperback

First published December 31, 1834

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Elias Lönnrot was a Finnish philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry. He is best known for composing the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic compiled from national folklore.

Lönnrot was born in Sammatti, in the province of Uusimaa in Finland. He studied medicine at the Academy of Turku. To his misfortune the year he joined was the year of the Great Fire of Turku, burning down half the town – and the University. Lönnrot (and many of the rest of the University) moved to Helsinki, where he graduated in 1832.

He got a job as district doctor of Kajaani in Northern Finland during a time of famine in the district. The famine had prompted the previous doctor to resign, making it possible for a very young doctor to get such a position. Several consecutive years of crop failure resulted in enormous losses of population and livestock; Lönnrot wrote letters to the State departments, asking for food, not medicines. He was the sole doctor for the 4,000 or so people of his district, at a time where doctors were rare and very expensive, and where people did not buy medicines from equally rare and expensive pharmacies, but rather trusted to their village healers and locally available remedies.

His true passion lay in his native Finnish language. He began writing about the early Finnish language in 1827 and began collecting folk tales from the rural people about that time.

Lönnrot went on extended leaves of absence from his doctor's office; he toured the countryside of Finland, Sapmi (Lapland), and nearby portions of Russian Karelia to support his collecting efforts. This led to a series of books: Kantele, 1829–1831 (the kantele is a Finnish traditional instrument); Kalevala, 1835–1836 (possibly Land of Heroes; better known as the "old" Kalevala); Kanteletar, 1840 (the Kantele Maiden); Sananlaskuja, 1842 (Proverbs); an expanded second edition of Kalevala, 1849 (the "new" Kalevala); and Finsk-Svenskt lexikon, 1866–1880 (Finnish-Swedish Dictionary).

Lönnrot was recognised for his part in preserving Finland's oral traditions by appointment to the Chair of Finnish Literature at the University of Helsinki. He died on March 19, 1884 in Sammatti, in the province of Uusimaa.