When I am in Finland I celebrate kekri in Ilomantsi by the lake Koitere . I put outside my own wooden Iku-Turso statue and let it be there while staying in my cottage . Eating berries and mushroom is my way to celebrate kekri. My kekri is connected with our epic KALEVALA . Just amazing feeling staying alone near the big battle fields and listening the moaning of the souls of perished Russian soldiers wanting to return home ( wind between the trees) . Tapio gives my fire wood and Ahti gives daily fish.
Nice one. Welcome back 🙏 like your good self, I think autumn is a beautiful season, and you're right to point out the highlights of the season. Thank you for your lovely video
i also love autumn! i love looking at the trees and their changing colours before the leaves fall. autumn is a time to get cozy and warm, maybe slow down a bit in prepare for winter. :)
So nice to see new content from you! I used to live in Ireland, Cork for a short time and fell in love with the country and it's ancient traditions.❤ I really like autumn, Samhain and Kekri. Autumn is truly a time of gratitude and slowing down. In Helsinki there's at least one burning of Kekripukki (a bonfire), which I think is quite a recent thing. Also some student organizations may have Kekri "sitsit", a kind of dinner party where people wear national costumes and eat seasonal food. Go raibh maith agat☘️ for the great video, I look forward to future ones!
the best explanation of what an elf/troll/goblin/etc. is that i ever heard is that they are where the self in the other and the other in the self come together. since i've heard that it's become my working definition, and hasn't failed me yet.
Great to see an upload from you again, welcome back!! Can it be possible that the festivals mentioned in your video was also a reason for villagers of yesteryear to have a huge last get together before everyone were kind of isolated or hunkered down for protection from the icy winter months? Just love the manner in which you talk story, whilst at the same time teach new generations about the beautiful ways in which our ancestors revered our home, earth. Thank you!!
It's nice to see a native celt talk about his culture and similarities to two distant brothers! With regards to elves, they were originally deceptive spirits such as the Nyx or those dwelling in bogs that caused mirages and lights (hence the derivation from *alb- meaning "bright, shining") that led men astray. Later elves have come to be all kinds of beings, and with influence from Christianity they became more like angels. It's been quite a few hectic and painful years, so I haven't celebrate "dīs" for a few years, taking the time to enjoy the darkness and the cold, but happy fall and harvest to whoever is watching this video! Whatever your path, enjoy fall and its warm blanket of darkness and the approaching new year! 🍂🕯 I still wish we would take more care of our heritage in Finland and not focus so much on Halloween or similarly commercialised holidays (even though they were original peaceful celebrations).
Hi mate, good to see a video as always The suffix 'blót' doesn't actually relate to the english word blood. It's a totally separate root which died off in old english and has connotations of offering or sacrifice all the way back to proto Indo european. It has no surviving english cognate. The unfortunate truth about the álfablót, largely an event local to a certain part of sweden, is that we haven't the foggiest what it was about really. There seems to have been libations of some kind involved, which is extremely common in these types of events. Other than that, the only thing that can be safely guessed is sacrifices (possibly those libations included) being made to elves, which in that cultural context at that stage of northern germanic history may have been comparable to the huldafólk of iceland, ie placating the hidden beings
I'm Finnish, and while I've never celebrated kekri as such, it's interesting to see that our local church still does a sort of "harvest festival" in the autumn. My family has a farm, so we're often asked to provide some stalks of grain and such as props. So it might be that christianity absorbed at least a distant memory of the old festivals in some form, even though the church one is basically just thanking God for the year's harvest and then having a communal meal after. That being said, I do kinda get the impulse. I'm not a pagan or a neo-pagan, but I do still get this feeling when the harvest is in and the darkness starts to creep in and there's a chill in the air, kinda like "It is done. The harvest is in, we have food for the winter, we'll be all right. Time to celebrate the work done and prepare to rest". Even the darkness feels welcoming, kinda like a blanket after a flurry of activity and light and chaos. Like "all is good now, go take a nap".
I just don't like autumn because everything is dying. Of course trees don't really die, but they do drop their leaves (except for evergreens) and look dead. Only a few bird species are left and no insects. No wonder November is called the month of death in Finnish. Back in the old times autumn was the time of plenty, after the harvest time. With less ways to preserve food than today, folks needed to eat the extra before it got spoiled. A good reason to have a big party lasting for days! Afterwards you could come up with fancy religious or other explanations for partying hard and eating more than your fill.
Welcome back , missed your videos . Hope you are well 🙏 ❤😊
Great to see you again Aaron, keep the vids coming.
When I am in Finland I celebrate kekri in Ilomantsi by the lake Koitere . I put outside my own wooden Iku-Turso statue and let it be there while staying in my cottage . Eating berries and mushroom is my way to celebrate kekri.
My kekri is connected with our epic KALEVALA .
Just amazing feeling staying alone near the big battle fields and listening the moaning of the souls of perished Russian soldiers wanting to return home ( wind between the trees) .
Tapio gives my fire wood and Ahti gives daily fish.
Mateli Kuivalatar sang most of the poems of Kanteletar in 1838 at Kontiovaara, on the shore of lake Koitere. Foremother of mine.
Nice one. Welcome back 🙏 like your good self, I think autumn is a beautiful season, and you're right to point out the highlights of the season. Thank you for your lovely video
Nice to see your back.
Good to see you back!
i also love autumn! i love looking at the trees and their changing colours before the leaves fall. autumn is a time to get cozy and warm, maybe slow down a bit in prepare for winter. :)
Thank you--I celebrate both Samhain, but am very aware of Kekri. I'd love to see a more in depth video on it (or, if you have one, I'll hunt it down.
Love yo r videos ❤
Delighted to have you back ,Aaron. What an interesting and informative video. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Looking forward to more of your amazing videos.
Glad you're making new content again my friend! Your videos are always fascinating and very informing, looking forward to whats ahead! 😊🍁
So nice to see new content from you! I used to live in Ireland, Cork for a short time and fell in love with the country and it's ancient traditions.❤ I really like autumn, Samhain and Kekri. Autumn is truly a time of gratitude and slowing down.
In Helsinki there's at least one burning of Kekripukki (a bonfire), which I think is quite a recent thing. Also some student organizations may have Kekri "sitsit", a kind of dinner party where people wear national costumes and eat seasonal food.
Go raibh maith agat☘️ for the great video, I look forward to future ones!
Welcome back!!
the best explanation of what an elf/troll/goblin/etc. is that i ever heard is that they are where the self in the other and the other in the self come together.
since i've heard that it's become my working definition, and hasn't failed me yet.
Welcome back :)
Great to see an upload from you again, welcome back!! Can it be possible that the festivals mentioned in your video was also a reason for villagers of yesteryear to have a huge last get together before everyone were kind of isolated or hunkered down for protection from the icy winter months? Just love the manner in which you talk story, whilst at the same time teach new generations about the beautiful ways in which our ancestors revered our home, earth. Thank you!!
Oh yeah!!! one last big night out of the year haha
It's nice to see a native celt talk about his culture and similarities to two distant brothers! With regards to elves, they were originally deceptive spirits such as the Nyx or those dwelling in bogs that caused mirages and lights (hence the derivation from *alb- meaning "bright, shining") that led men astray. Later elves have come to be all kinds of beings, and with influence from Christianity they became more like angels.
It's been quite a few hectic and painful years, so I haven't celebrate "dīs" for a few years, taking the time to enjoy the darkness and the cold, but happy fall and harvest to whoever is watching this video! Whatever your path, enjoy fall and its warm blanket of darkness and the approaching new year! 🍂🕯
I still wish we would take more care of our heritage in Finland and not focus so much on Halloween or similarly commercialised holidays (even though they were original peaceful celebrations).
In Suomenlinna Helsinki there's Viaporin Kekri celebration. Many towns in Finland have their own Kekri events.
Congratulations for your wonderful work!!! I love the way you mix finnish, irish and norse paganism!!! BEST Wishes from Spain!!! Näkemiin!! 👋😄
Thank's. Summer end. ❤
Great to see you back, i can't seem to see your original samhain video, was it taken down? It would be great to show it to my Irish class.
Hi mate, good to see a video as always
The suffix 'blót' doesn't actually relate to the english word blood. It's a totally separate root which died off in old english and has connotations of offering or sacrifice all the way back to proto Indo european. It has no surviving english cognate.
The unfortunate truth about the álfablót, largely an event local to a certain part of sweden, is that we haven't the foggiest what it was about really. There seems to have been libations of some kind involved, which is extremely common in these types of events. Other than that, the only thing that can be safely guessed is sacrifices (possibly those libations included) being made to elves, which in that cultural context at that stage of northern germanic history may have been comparable to the huldafólk of iceland, ie placating the hidden beings
I'm Finnish, and while I've never celebrated kekri as such, it's interesting to see that our local church still does a sort of "harvest festival" in the autumn. My family has a farm, so we're often asked to provide some stalks of grain and such as props. So it might be that christianity absorbed at least a distant memory of the old festivals in some form, even though the church one is basically just thanking God for the year's harvest and then having a communal meal after.
That being said, I do kinda get the impulse. I'm not a pagan or a neo-pagan, but I do still get this feeling when the harvest is in and the darkness starts to creep in and there's a chill in the air, kinda like "It is done. The harvest is in, we have food for the winter, we'll be all right. Time to celebrate the work done and prepare to rest". Even the darkness feels welcoming, kinda like a blanket after a flurry of activity and light and chaos. Like "all is good now, go take a nap".
You should make a video about the finnish puukkojunkkarit who were knife wielding troublemakers during 19th century Ostrobothnia
I just don't like autumn because everything is dying. Of course trees don't really die, but they do drop their leaves (except for evergreens) and look dead. Only a few bird species are left and no insects. No wonder November is called the month of death in Finnish.
Back in the old times autumn was the time of plenty, after the harvest time. With less ways to preserve food than today, folks needed to eat the extra before it got spoiled. A good reason to have a big party lasting for days! Afterwards you could come up with fancy religious or other explanations for partying hard and eating more than your fill.
Finnish was mentioned
To the market square!
Oh, a name change.
I have a question, i hear people say Salwein, but its clear spelt as Samhain.
To me, samhain would've sounded like Salmon.
Yeah Gaelige is a crazy but cool language to look at then hear the actual word been said! SAH-win is the correct way to pronounce
@@aaronstavern whats the best way to learn this language? I would love to learn it
winter is coming
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