Finnish Pagan Midsummer - history & traditions

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  • Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024

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  • @Anttimation
    @Anttimation  3 месяца назад +11

    Here's the Taivaannaula video I mentioned: ruclips.net/video/V_KSwhVQDn0/видео.html
    Great channel and website in general for Finnish folklore and tradition!
    This was a lighter episode this time and relatively quickly put together. That's why the music is too loud. Well, these things happen sometimes. Happy Midsummer.

  • @WillBosch-Vuononen
    @WillBosch-Vuononen 3 месяца назад +7

    I laughed so hard with the Juhannus sacrifices for Ahti 😂😂😂

  • @SuperEohippus
    @SuperEohippus 3 месяца назад +8

    Latviasta tunnetaan keksikesän juhlintaan liittyen tapa, jonka mukaan juhannusyönä "jokainen nainen on neito" eli naimaton. Toisin sanoen jokainen nainen on vapaa avioliiton rajoitteista, ja juhannusyönä oli lupa mennä ja rakastella kenen kanssa mieli teki. Tällä on kenties haluttu turvata myös hedelmättömien aviomiesten vaimojen mahdollisuus lapsensaantiin.

    • @Anttimation
      @Anttimation  3 месяца назад +2

      Mielenkiintoista! Sopii hyvin käsitykseeni suomalaisenkin juhannuksen eroottisesta luonteesta. Kiitos valistamisesta.

  • @angelsmagick
    @angelsmagick 3 месяца назад +23

    Hyvää Juhannusta !

    • @Anttimation
      @Anttimation  3 месяца назад +1

      Hyvää juhannusta my friend!

    • @R2-D292
      @R2-D292 3 месяца назад +2

      Samoin !

    • @valerijsduboviks
      @valerijsduboviks 3 месяца назад +1

      Priecīgus Jāņus !!!Greeting's from Latvia.

  • @elenaylitalo1624
    @elenaylitalo1624 3 месяца назад +3

    Here’s a couple of midsummer traditions I used to do, when I tired to find out who my future husband is:
    1. Collect 7 different flowers and place them under your pillow on midsummer eve and then you will see your future spouse in your dreams when you sleep on them.
    2. Dance around a well 7 times and look at the reflection on the water and you will see your future partner.
    I recently found out Swedes and Danes have similar traditions, so I’m not sure where these “spells” originate from.

    • @Anttimation
      @Anttimation  3 месяца назад

      The first one I think is still quite common! And to the second we could add that if you see your current partner in the well, they've already drowned 🤔

  • @berrymcockiner3906
    @berrymcockiner3906 3 месяца назад +8

    Saint Johns is celebrated in Upper Michigan

    • @Anttimation
      @Anttimation  3 месяца назад +2

      Interesting! How is it celebrated? Anything similar to Finnish/Nordic midsummer?

    • @berrymcockiner3906
      @berrymcockiner3906 3 месяца назад +4

      @@Anttimation big bonfires on the beach with food, lots of people from all over USA/Finland and Sweden come to congregate for two weeks

    • @oddis188
      @oddis188 Месяц назад +1

      ​@@berrymcockiner3906Just saw this comment now. But that wouldn't be so weird.
      The great lakes surrounds have always been full of Finnish descendants.
      I got friends in Wisconsin who just did a Lake Superior/Lake Michigan road trip and he sent me a picture from some upper Michigan gas station and they had SISU bumper stickers for sale there.
      There's even Finnindians over there.
      The natives liked Finns when they moved there back in the day, similar respect to the nature and living and the sauna culture was similar to their sweat lodge/tents so there was many marriages between Finnish migrants and local natives

    • @berrymcockiner3906
      @berrymcockiner3906 Месяц назад +1

      @@oddis188 i am in the yoop right now

  • @tedr.5978
    @tedr.5978 3 месяца назад +8

    I for one appreciate "bad" taste joke endings.

  • @Brunavargen
    @Brunavargen 3 месяца назад +12

    Hyvää Juhannusta ja glad midsommar from Sweden! Brilliant video as alwas 😃

    • @Anttimation
      @Anttimation  3 месяца назад +5

      Glad midsommar! I wonder if you sacrificed any foreign tourists this year?

    • @Brunavargen
      @Brunavargen 3 месяца назад +1

      @@Anttimation Sadly no... I will have to lure a whole bussload of germans here next year to repent before our goddess of the sun!

  • @JanosBanics
    @JanosBanics 3 месяца назад +1

    Good old Alcohol and stupidity.
    The great European past time.

  • @HS-su3cf
    @HS-su3cf 3 месяца назад +15

    To prepare for midsummer, one can use this Forest-finn runo from Grue, Norway. Written down by C. A. Gottlund in 1821.
    Kyrpeä karastaminen
    Nouse noukka, kasva kulli,
    Lämpoisille lähtehillen,
    Karvaisille kaukaloillen
    Iltayöstä istumahan,
    Puoliyöstä valvomahan,
    Nosta piäsi, muista työsi,
    Niin kuin äskön äimistelit!
    😉

    • @Anttimation
      @Anttimation  3 месяца назад +4

      That's some proper magic right there! 😆

  • @kissalanpojat
    @kissalanpojat 3 месяца назад +9

    Hyvää Ukon juhlaa! Mahtava video niinkuin aina!

    • @Anttimation
      @Anttimation  3 месяца назад +1

      Kiitos ja sitä samaa!

  • @Deseko
    @Deseko 3 месяца назад +9

    Feed the Algorithm

    • @Anttimation
      @Anttimation  3 месяца назад +3

      Can't let it starve, can we

    • @rogersittnikow
      @rogersittnikow 3 месяца назад

      ​@@Anttimation no we cannot!

  • @fallenknight3016
    @fallenknight3016 28 дней назад +1

    finnish laungage being spoken me: i don speak elvish

  • @kaamoshaamu
    @kaamoshaamu 3 месяца назад +2

    You're speaking the word. But I hate that troll figure. :D Kept on listening mode.

  • @MessiahsandMythology
    @MessiahsandMythology 3 месяца назад +5

    At last! Antti reveals his true form.
    I knew there was a reason the trolls were so well-endowed in his comic.

  • @Robert-gc9gc
    @Robert-gc9gc 3 месяца назад +4

    I don't live somewhere that you can do bonfires, although that would be fun. I have an Ukonvasara that I recently put in my car to hang in the window for Midsommar. All I can do.
    I think ancient Finns would have had a level of fun in their rituals despite the hard times. Just my opinion ❤

    • @Anttimation
      @Anttimation  3 месяца назад +2

      That should keep any trolls away from the car! I think so too re: ancient Finns. I could easily see how our trollish, morbid humour would have developed over centuries.
      Hyvää juhannusta!

  • @herrakaarme
    @herrakaarme 3 месяца назад +3

    Ukko won't let go of his party that easily, even if it needs to happen under someone else's name. That being said, John the Baptist might wonder why he is celebrated by drinking booze and burning bonfires.

    • @thatwhitewolf5222
      @thatwhitewolf5222 3 месяца назад +1

      Drinking alcohole isint a sin, drunkness is a sin.
      And bonfires and fire, gose far back as the old testament. if Fire was just pagan alone, the whos paganism is the true Bonfire?

    • @herrakaarme
      @herrakaarme 3 месяца назад +3

      @@thatwhitewolf5222 Considering bonfires, the elements seem to clash. If John the Baptist is known for the ritual of baptism, which is performed with water, then bonfires, which are all about fire, the element opposite to water, doesn't seem fitting.
      Juhannus has traditionally had quite a lot of drinking in excess.

  • @informationstream6513
    @informationstream6513 2 месяца назад +1

    Juhannus on liitettävissä voimakkaasti myös kokkoon, joka on voimakkaasti yhdistettävissä amerikkalaiseen ukkoslintuun ja kaaoskäärmettä vastustavaan alkujumalaan... itse ainakin juhlistan kokkoa aina joka juhannuksena.

  • @alananimus9145
    @alananimus9145 3 месяца назад +2

    Thor isn't a sky god. I've come to believe he is Hercules. The sky god was first Tyr then Odin.

    • @Anttimation
      @Anttimation  3 месяца назад +1

      Ah yeah. From what little I have read the Eddas, he did seem very focused on fighting Jörmungandr, if I remember correctly at all

  • @BorgonOfTheSnows
    @BorgonOfTheSnows 3 месяца назад +2

    Happy Juhannus from Upper Michigan! we have bonfires here as well as midsummer poles from the swedes.

    • @Anttimation
      @Anttimation  3 месяца назад +1

      Nice! Keep the (bonfire) flames alive!

  • @BlackArtBMX
    @BlackArtBMX 3 месяца назад +3

    Mahtavia videoita, hienoo animaatiota (etenkin Suomen historia -sarjassa) ja mielettömät musiikit. Puskista tuleva kuiva huumorikin toimii. Kiitos.

    • @Anttimation
      @Anttimation  3 месяца назад +1

      Kiitos paljon!
      Musiikki on Karneh-nimisen artistin biisejä. Kannattaa tutustua suoratoistosta, someista ym.!

    • @BlackArtBMX
      @BlackArtBMX 3 месяца назад

      @@Anttimation Laitoin Spotifyssä seurantaan ja linkkasin Wardruna -fani kaverille

  • @Ardabor-GrimoriosyBestiarios
    @Ardabor-GrimoriosyBestiarios 3 месяца назад +2

    Thnks for the video, I really enjoyed 🧙‍♂

    • @Anttimation
      @Anttimation  3 месяца назад +1

      Thank you. That's great to hear!

  • @loreena.plstne
    @loreena.plstne 2 месяца назад +1

    Great❤

  • @jortekariko
    @jortekariko 3 месяца назад +4

    megapussi after megapussi... repesin. mut anyway! hyvää juhannusta!

    • @N_0968
      @N_0968 3 месяца назад +2

      Samoin.

    • @Anttimation
      @Anttimation  3 месяца назад +1

      Hyvää juhannusta megapusseilla tai ilman!

  • @jake-rg3fd
    @jake-rg3fd 3 месяца назад +2

    The great famine joke was hilarious 😂

  • @Loveolin
    @Loveolin 3 месяца назад +4

    Jeeee mahtava video jälleen ja hyvää juhannusta🥳

    • @Anttimation
      @Anttimation  3 месяца назад +2

      Kiitos ja sitä samaa!

  • @zoolkhan
    @zoolkhan 3 месяца назад +3

    HYVÄÄ UKON JUHLA! ja kiitos antti

  • @vickis.9363
    @vickis.9363 3 месяца назад +1

    Great presentation, kiitos! Do you ever look at the Bock Saga? Any opinions?

    • @Anttimation
      @Anttimation  3 месяца назад +2

      Thanks! I get asked that every now and then but I don't find it worth it other than as a peculiar work of fiction maybe

  • @Peter-ri9ie
    @Peter-ri9ie 3 месяца назад +2

    Klockrent. Kollar denna på midsommardagen. Riktigt bra. Och musiken passar som handen i handsken. Ser fram emot fler filmer! 👊🏻

    • @Anttimation
      @Anttimation  3 месяца назад +2

      Tack och glad midsommar! Hoppas att ni sakrificerar många turister i år 🎉

    • @Peter-ri9ie
      @Peter-ri9ie 3 месяца назад +1

      @@Anttimation he he he *tittar över åkern mot skogsbrynet där asken i solnedgången står, den månghundraåriga, som sett vattnet sakta försvinna och människor komma och gå, den välvattnade.*

  • @N_0968
    @N_0968 3 месяца назад +2

    Hyvää juhannusta! Nyt kelpaisi Karhu tai mikä tahansa oikea olut.

    • @Anttimation
      @Anttimation  3 месяца назад +1

      Kiitos samoin! Sahti vois olla sopiva juoma 🤔

  • @sijaltainen
    @sijaltainen 3 месяца назад +2

    Kiintoisa video! Mukavaa juhannusta ja kesää! 🌞

    • @Anttimation
      @Anttimation  3 месяца назад +2

      Kiitos ja sitä samaa!

  • @Valmentaja
    @Valmentaja 16 дней назад

    🟢

  • @xandrecarnes9888
    @xandrecarnes9888 Месяц назад

    Fun fact The Finnish Air Force the last country that use the swastika.

    • @Anttimation
      @Anttimation  Месяц назад

      It does raise some (understandable) confusion abroad every now and then

  • @overconfidentcat
    @overconfidentcat 3 месяца назад +3

    hyvää Ukon Juhla

  • @metaldiver
    @metaldiver 3 месяца назад +2

    Hyvää juhannusta! Hieno video jälleen

    • @Anttimation
      @Anttimation  3 месяца назад +1

      Kiitos jälleen kerran ja hyvää juhannusta sinnekin!

  • @xandrecarnes9888
    @xandrecarnes9888 13 дней назад

    Who is the demon Paha in Finnish mythology?

    • @Anttimation
      @Anttimation  10 дней назад

      I don't think I've heard of such a thing 😅

  • @xandrecarnes9888
    @xandrecarnes9888 Месяц назад

    A question how big is a uralic people in finland survive the proto-indo-european evasions horse riding Giant indo-europeans?

    • @Anttimation
      @Anttimation  Месяц назад

      Sorry mate. I didn't understand the question 😅

    • @xandrecarnes9888
      @xandrecarnes9888 Месяц назад

      They also known as Aryans and
      introduce the swastika

  • @anderpanders6210
    @anderpanders6210 3 месяца назад +1

    Teet tosi hyviä videoita! Kyllä saa kaimasta olla ylpeä. Tiedätkin varmaan, mutta etunimesi tulee tuolta etelästä Andres, Antros nimestä, ja tarkoittaa miestä. Antti Palosaari - Man Burn-Island

    • @Anttimation
      @Anttimation  3 месяца назад

      Kiitos paljon! Joo. Tavallaan harmi, ettei ole muinaissuomalainen nimi, mutta ihan mielenkiintoinen historia tälläkin.

  • @deathfalcon602
    @deathfalcon602 3 месяца назад +2

    I love the butthurtness towards christianity in these videos 😂 as if Christianity wrecked all the fun everyone was having.
    I truly relish the videos though! Love them.

    • @Anttimation
      @Anttimation  3 месяца назад +2

      Thanks! It did destroy a lot of our old traditions which I would very much have liked to have survived. But the remarks are not without some degree of jest ;)

    • @deathfalcon602
      @deathfalcon602 3 месяца назад +1

      I get it, it would be super interesting! I love the stories of Finns trolling the Christian priests coming from Sweden😂.
      Would love to hear more of them.
      I noticed in Lohja last week there was a waterway called "ämmänperse" 😅...love it.

    • @Anttimation
      @Anttimation  3 месяца назад +1

      Would be fun to share when/if I come across more of those 😁

  • @karnehfolk
    @karnehfolk 3 месяца назад +2

    Hyvää Ukon juhlaa!

  • @deathfalcon602
    @deathfalcon602 3 месяца назад

    I think its the same with anything, some thought the rituals had power and most went along mindless. In this capitalistic world every weekend has sort of become Juhannus...before the dreaded workweek.
    Id be interested to know were there any athiest minded "trolls" back then who thought the rituals were stupid, i am guessing a member of a town maybe had to take part in them to some extent...they were very tight communities who relied on eachother to survive.
    Love the videos!

    • @Anttimation
      @Anttimation  3 месяца назад +1

      Yeah I've wondered that too sometimes. Maybe with the tight-knittedness of the communities, someone doubting the beliefs or rather knowledge of the time might have also often been smart enough not to bring it up...

  • @MangoTV9040
    @MangoTV9040 3 месяца назад

    Suomi prkl

  • @WMfin
    @WMfin 3 месяца назад +1

    I was worshiping Satan at metal festivals but hail Ukko as well!
    I didn't do any spell-casting other than heavy drinking but I did see my potential partner as I went there with her!

    • @Anttimation
      @Anttimation  3 месяца назад

      Good! Would have been alarming if you didn't see her 😆

  • @heitorfontenele2041
    @heitorfontenele2041 16 дней назад

    Você poderia dublar seus videos para o Português, ou uma lingua Ibérica como espanhol? 🦊🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷👍🏻

    • @Anttimation
      @Anttimation  16 дней назад

      Well, not really as I don't know those. But automatic subtitles might work?

    • @heitorfontenele2041
      @heitorfontenele2041 16 дней назад

      ​@@AnttimationEntão tá, é que eu vi o seu canal e daria muito certo aqui nos países latinos 🦊👍🏻

  • @JarkkoToivonen
    @JarkkoToivonen 3 месяца назад +1

    Horrible Finnish language accent.😢

    • @Anttimation
      @Anttimation  3 месяца назад +15

      You mean *awesome*

    • @Silveirias
      @Silveirias 3 месяца назад +9

      Ei suomalaisessa aksentissa oo mitään vikaa tai hävettävää.

    • @Esti-xg7tg
      @Esti-xg7tg 3 месяца назад +2

      My French hubby who's born in Berlin, LOVES Finnish accent, and also your humour! Hyvää Juhannusta/Ukonjuhlaa näin jälkikäteen! 🙂 Tai erittäin ajoissa, miten päin haluaa katsoa! 😉​@@Anttimation