Forwarded from Integral Life +
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Always be the best, my boy, the bravest, and hold your head up high above all the others. Never disgrace the generation of your fathers. They were the bravest champions...
〜 Homer
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Always be the best, my boy, the bravest, and hold your head up high above all the others. Never disgrace the generation of your fathers. They were the bravest champions...
〜 Homer
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"In the womb of one of the secrets of time lies an inalienable resonance between the roots of man and his history cognizance. Oftenly, the seeking of an endless spirit endowment engulfs him with a veil of barren knowledge, that commonly ties his thoughts and reflections to the boundaries of an ordinary living, dragged by a flux of invisible strands that may craft a path leading nowhere. Sometimes, this delivers into a self-inducted catharsis where the glorious pursuit of ancient trails in own’s blood turns imperative. Despite it being minimum or gigantic. Pure as a child’s heart or intertwined as a chimera. This seed is what made man within and not without. Empowering him to step above all his previous versions yet giving birth to what will become his spiritform."
Forwarded from Wäinölä 🇫🇮
Robert Wilhelm Ekman (1808 – 1873) 🇫🇮 — Väinämöinen playing the Kantele (1866)
Ekman began working on the painting in 1857, but due to financial difficulties et cetera, he didn't finish it until 1866. Its initial reception was poor — it was too Finnish for the Swedes, and Ekman himself too Swedish for the Finns — but the painting is now considered to be his magnum opus. He also made a sketch of the composition.
Väinämöinen is surrounded by a host of Gods and entities. Pellervoinen, the God of vegetation, is seen planting a sapling on the left. Behind him are the God & Goddess of the forest, Tapio & Mielikki. Behind them, accompanied by a bear, is a hiisi, a tricksterlike entity. On the right are Ahti & Vellamo, the God & Goddess of the sea. The girls in the front, accompanied by a swan, are known as Sotkotars (singular: Sotkotar, i.e. 'Scaupess'). Sitting on the rainbow are the airmaids Päivätär & Kuutar, along with Tähdetär ('Starress'), Otavatar (from Otava, the Big Dipper), and a fifth one.
Ekman began working on the painting in 1857, but due to financial difficulties et cetera, he didn't finish it until 1866. Its initial reception was poor — it was too Finnish for the Swedes, and Ekman himself too Swedish for the Finns — but the painting is now considered to be his magnum opus. He also made a sketch of the composition.
Väinämöinen is surrounded by a host of Gods and entities. Pellervoinen, the God of vegetation, is seen planting a sapling on the left. Behind him are the God & Goddess of the forest, Tapio & Mielikki. Behind them, accompanied by a bear, is a hiisi, a tricksterlike entity. On the right are Ahti & Vellamo, the God & Goddess of the sea. The girls in the front, accompanied by a swan, are known as Sotkotars (singular: Sotkotar, i.e. 'Scaupess'). Sitting on the rainbow are the airmaids Päivätär & Kuutar, along with Tähdetär ('Starress'), Otavatar (from Otava, the Big Dipper), and a fifth one.