Finnish flood myth
The Finnish
Northern Ostrobothnia
in 1803/04, the rune tells:
- The blood came forth like a flood
- the gore ran like a river:
- there was no hummock
- and no high mountain
- that was not flooded
- all from Väinämöinen's toe
- from the holy hero's knee.[2]
Phoenicians,[4] the Bible and Greek mythology, then integrated it with the myth's personification of nature.[5] The account of the great flood was embedded in a narrative that also featured the Greek sun-myths and moon-myths. These influences are not found in the myths of Finland's Slavic and Scandinavian
neighbors. However, a theory explained this aspect to Finnish myth as a relic of the earliest Asiatic life of one of the Finnish ancestors.
According to
world egg.[6]
References
- ^ Bosley, K., translator (1999) The Kalevala. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- ^ Kuusi, M., Bosley, K., and Branch, M., editors and translators (1977) Finnish folk poetry: epic: an anthology in Finnish and English. Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society. p. 94
- ^ Kuusi, M., Bosley, K., and Branch, M., editors and translators (1977) Finnish folk poetry: epic: an anthology in Finnish and English. Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society.
- ^ Bidwell, W.H. (1857). The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 42. New York: Leavitt, Trow, & Company. p. 364.
- ^ Stickler, G.B; Barnett, E.H. (1889). The Presbyterian Quarterly. New York: Constitution Publishing Company. p. 154.
- ISBN 978-952-222-393-7.