Young Shaman Finland

Fun fact: The vikings believed the finns to possess great magical powers and married their women to have that supposed power on their side

@Sisu oh for...
yes we had shamans and poppamies....
Tis was the Sami your talking about here...

The Vikings were salty... becayse we utterly decimated the lot.

@snow2nose

and thus became the "hate".

@snow2nose

and then became the "Bigger Hate".

learn your history.

There is a community called Taivaannaula, in finland, who are trying to revitalize/document finnish mythology and ancient culture and upkeep some of the "holy sites". They have a website as well and it says you can have it in english too, not sure how well/much they've translated. I've gotten really interested in them lately

@Hakala thats all nice and fancy.

my pops was in the SKDL.

and without him we would be speaking russian.

@snow2nose Cool. Not really related to ancient religions, but cool.

@Hakala it is.

Goodness. I don't know anything about old Finnish culture, but that drawing is just amazing!

Also, @aurinkolasit @impkat I might not be as fascinated by the topic as you are, but I am very curious and if you guys can advice me an interesting source in English for a real noob, then please tell me. (I'm okay with google translate plus proper dictionary-ing myself through Swedish as well)

Lalli!

@FrankHarr More Like Onni ;)

I was reading a webcomic inspired by Finnish folklore, if any of you are interested http://www.yihcomic.com/home.php

@Ptarmigeon this looks pretty cool, will have to check it out thanks for sharing

@KujalaD13
No problem!
There is also this. It's in English and Finnish, good for practicing

@Ptarmigeon thank you it looks interesting

Very thankful you didn’t go the stereotypical Saami look. The drum art was personal to each Gothi (hard to write it correctly in English) He needs a reindeer as a companion. The Saami people are in Sweden, Finland, Norway and the Scolt Peninsula so each area is different. Tak Tak. .

@VikingMomSD I mean even though there was some bad blood in the past these days all Finns, Sami that live at least partly in Finland and Fennoswedes are Finnish. You can choose Finnish, Sami or Swedish as your mothertongue for you high school finals. Dunno about how the education works, I'm way too far South for that.

@VikingMomSD

I was under the impression that Gothis were *viking* magicians in Iceland.

To be honest, I’m a bit bugged by the fact that a supposedly Finnish shaman uses a gievrie, which is South Sámi…

'@DominusCarnufex' Shaman drums were used by not only south samis, but also all the other samis and other Finnic peoples...

yay you posted it here too its still awsome

@csizmawarrior
Thank you!~

Great drawing and pretty accurate. The ukonvasara and puukko are great details. One small detail tho, is that you drew a heliocentric drum that is more common in Scandinavia, while most Finnish shaman drums follow the three layer world pattern, or a mix between heliocentric and three layer pattern. Basically it just needs a few horizontal lines.

@HenrikPerkele Thank you for the information! Do you know where I could find more on the topic?

If Finland wasn’t a complete psycho I feel he would make a great hippie

@VivaWorld546 well your right there.. but you also need to know the history.
we were kicked around just enough to become this mad...

@snow2nose yea I know that but it’s cool you guys beat armies way bigger than you

@VivaWorld546 and we have still grandfathers who live it over and over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and overover and over and over and overover and over and over and overover and over and over and overover and over and over and overover and over and over and overover and over and over and overover and over and over and overover and over and over and overover and over and over and overover and over and over and overover and over and over and overover and over and over and overover and over and over and overover and over and over and overover and over and over and overover and over and over and overover and over and over and overover and over and over and overover and over and over and overover and over and over and overover and over and over and overover and over and over and overover and over and over and overover and over and over and overover and over and over and overover and over and over and overover and over and over and overover and over and over and overover and over and over and overover and over and over and overover and over and over and overover and over and over and overover and over and over and overover and over and over and overover and over and over and overover and over and over and overover and over and over and overover and over and over and overover and over and over and overover and over and over and overover and over and over and over again.

@snow2nose oh god in Mexico our grandparents Are in the same state as you guys