The bronze sculpture 'Ilmatar ja Sotka' depicts the creation myth from Finland's National Epic 'poem' the 'Kalevala'.
The bronze sculpture 'Ilmatar ja Sotka' depicts the creation myth from Finland's National Epic 'poem' the 'Kalevala'.
Ilmatar, the Goddess of the Air is impregnated by a storm and became pregnant with Väinämöinen (the central character of the Kalevala).
She drifts in the sea for 700 years until a Scaup settles on her knee, mistaking it for an islet, and lays seven eggs which she then begins to brood.
The heat from the brooding makes Ilmatar move her leg and the eggs break, becoming the Earth, Sky, Sun, Moon, etc.
So we can see that important bright shining apparitions emanating from 'Ilmatar ja Sotka' is a phenomenon as old as the earth itself.
Are there any similar Creation Folklores attached to the other portals which +Oliver Lynton-Wolfe is investigating?
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Ilmatar, the Goddess of the Air is impregnated by a storm and became pregnant with Väinämöinen (the central character of the Kalevala).
She drifts in the sea for 700 years until a Scaup settles on her knee, mistaking it for an islet, and lays seven eggs which she then begins to brood.
The heat from the brooding makes Ilmatar move her leg and the eggs break, becoming the Earth, Sky, Sun, Moon, etc.
So we can see that important bright shining apparitions emanating from 'Ilmatar ja Sotka' is a phenomenon as old as the earth itself.
Are there any similar Creation Folklores attached to the other portals which +Oliver Lynton-Wolfe is investigating?
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