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Wonderful videos, thank you
ImthatIm.
Such a genuine account of how to work with Spirit and how generous also of him to share the knowledge about the Sundance symbols.
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Oh, I had heard of the Iroquois Confederacy, but what a great story behind it.
Didn’t know the Longfellow's poem,
The Song of Hiawatha was tied to that story.
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It is said that “in the summer of 1835 Longfellow arrived in northern Europe intent on seeking out the mysteries of Scandinavia, and in high spirits in anticipation of the romance of the North, but Henry Wadsworth Longfellow soon became disillusioned” …. apart from Kalevala. “I am reading with great delight the Finnish epic Kalevala. It is charming.”
https://sambirrer.wordpress.com/2016...ot-longfellow/
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The Kalevala, created during the 1830s and 1840s, is based on authentic folklore collected and compiled by Elias Lonnrot. It was the Kalevala that initiated the process leading to the foundation of Finnish identity during the nineteenth century and was, therefore, one of the crucial factors in the formation of Finland as a new nation in the twentieth century.
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Because Elias was Finnish and Finland was an agricultural society which for a long time had been under Swedish rule and Kalevala poems mainly came from Viena, “Russian Karelia”,
http://www.juminkeko.fi/viena/taustaa/pieni_kartta.jpg
…. from original hunter-gatherer and shamanic people – Lonnrot did not have the mind-set to understand them and left a lot out as unsuitable for publication.
The two mind-sets:
https://images.cdn.tiede.fi/MKFq2Hwz...?itok=X2DaScbx
But thank goodness for this:
https://finland.fi/arts-culture/alte...in-the-making/
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P.S. I
just learned this:
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https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia....ticle/hiawatha
The story of Hiawatha should not be confused with the popular poem by Henry Wordsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha (1885). While Longfellow references Hiawatha, the poem’s focus is actually an Algonquian cultural hero, Nanabozho. Whether this was an intentional or accidental error, Longfellow’s poem confused the history of Hiawatha.
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