I have always lived near water.
I like the rivers and lakes
but
I LOVE the sea
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UNDERWATER life / love
is the theme of this week´s drawing challence, hosted by dear
Julia, thank you for the charming theme!
Via Julia´s blog you may see all the wonderful participants of the week.
I am going to -
guess where..
..well to the sea ( in spite of the chilly weather and flu )
That is why I am sorry not to visit your blogs until the Sunday evening, see you then!
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Some years ago I made works based on the Finnish national saga, Kalevala.
I became charmed by the rune 40, Birth of the Harp.
Väinämöinen - a shamanistic and pretty bombastic hero - cuts a giant pike in two and
makes a harp ( =kantele) out of the fish bones.
This rune is about men of the Northland
but there are also many unique, strong, characteristic women in the saga.
This rune is also about water - into and out of the water.
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| pike tail, 90 x 116cm, oil on canvas | | |
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(Väinämöinen) ..Cuts the monster into pieces;
To the water falls the pike-tail,
To the ship the head and body;
Easily the ship moves onward.
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| Goodly Dinner, 70 x 70cm, oil on canvas |
"Let the youngest of the maidens
Cook for me the pike of Northland,
Set for me a goodly dinner!"
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| jawbone of the pike,116 x 90cm, oil on canvas |
Whence the necessary harp-pins?
From the pike-teeth firmly fastened.
Whence the sweetly singing harp-strings?
From the tail of Lempo's stallion.
Thus was born the harp of magic
From the mighty pike of Northland,
From the relies from the feasting
Of the heroes of Wainola.
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The Kalevala is the national saga of Finland.
Pieced together (and embellished) by Elias Lönnrot
in the late 19th Century, from a traditional cycle told by rural storytellers,
the tales which constitute the Kalevala show
signs of great antiquity.--J. B. Hare
Väinämöinen is the central character of The Kalevala, a shamanistic hero with a magical power of song and music, similar to that of Orpheus. Väinämöinen created and plays the kantele, a Finnish stringed instrument that resembles and is played like a zither.
All about the Kalevala
