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Lönnrot — Kantele Taikka
Sacred songs and incantations from Elias Lönnrot's Kantele Taikka (1829–1831).
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Texts
Sacred Incantations from Lönnrot's Kantele Taikka — Volume I (1829)Five sacred incantations from Elias Lönnrot's first folk song collection (1829): bear ceremony skull-mounting words, post-hunt sacrifice words, spring cattle protection words, a snake charm, and the mythological origin of the seal. First English translations.Sacred Songs from Lönnrot's Kantele Taikka — Volume II (1830)Three sacred songs from Elias Lönnrot's second Finnish folk poetry collection (1830): the mythological origin of the kantele, Ilmarinen's forging of a golden maiden, and an old hunter's forest invocation with lament for a lost age. First English translations.Sacred Songs from Lönnrot's Kantele Taikka — Volume III (1830)Three sacred incantation songs from Elias Lönnrot's third Finnish folk poetry collection (1830): the mythological origin of iron from cloud-maidens' milk, a ritual exorcism addressed to Kiwutar the Pain Goddess of Kipumäki, and the cosmological origin of fire with burn-healing invocations. First English translations.Sacred Songs from Lönnrot's Kantele Taikka — Volume IV (1831)Four sacred incantation songs from Elias Lönnrot's fourth Finnish folk poetry collection (1831): the origin and banishment of Frost to Lapland, the redirection of Kalma the death-spirit back to the churchyard, storm words placing Jesus and Väinämöinen in a boat together, and the bear origin charm addressed to the forest-gods Juumi. First English translations.