[expressions-of-nature]

Helsinki, Finland by Tina Mar

[niuniente]

I’m happy so many of you are liking this post our native love god, Lempo.

Unfortunately there are no images of Lempo, only descriptions of him (sometimes her). But Omniverse Battlewiki has a pretty good image of Lempo which goes together with how Lempo is said to look like.

Lempo’s influence is still present in modern Finland, especially in the language. One word for love is lempi which is a direct word from Lempo. In old rimes, lempi wasn’t romantic love but like Lempo, it was erratic, sexual, passionate, consuming and difficult to control. It was possible to bewitch someone under the power of lempi and Lempo himself. One could call out for Lempo to bewitch someone, to make them fall in love with them.

The love Lempo controlled and gave people was All or Nothing. It could easily make people go insane with desire, control, jealousy or heart-break. A woman who is badly depressed over a heartbreak and seems not to be able to heal from this loss (or her love interest not being interested in her) was possessed by Lempo. A man who kills his love rival or his wife when she tries to divorce him was possessed by Lempo.

Women who were in danger of not finding a husband could turn to Lempo and his lempi love, to ask him to deliver them a good husband. Here’s a spell for calling forth such a love:

Rise love to burn wildly honor to shine brightly! Travel the moon, return the day Burn the mind of young men! Let the heart set ablaze the chest into a consuming burn the stomach full with the folk of fire the mind under a scorching hotness So that you can’t sleep during the night nor rest during the day! Burn fire, burn taula-primer Burn the mind of young men! The best for you, not the worst The best among the young men The kindest from the church crowd The strongest one from the warriors The most brisk from above the waters. It’s important to know that native Finns practiced widely witchcraft and were known to be powerful witches (so much that vikings pretty much decided to leave us alone). Spellcasting was common and it was done by singing, mixing later with Christian traditions (as you can see from the spell above; the spell asks for a man who is the kindest among the ones who go to church). In the East and up North, people also turned to guidance and help of different monsters and demons, as they were either kind if treated right or stupid enough to be fooled. This included the devil himself.

That you can see perfectly in Lempo, who is both a monstrous, demonic being and a beneficial entity.

[alelaputettu]

näkkileipä-kierre on se kun ei syö näkkileipää 4 kuukauteen, sit ottaa kaapista yhden ku ei oo muuta syötävää ja toteaa että se on lahja jumalilta ja paras asia joka on ikinä tapahtunut ja syö parissa päivässä sen koko paketin ja sit hakee kaupasta uuden paketin kunnes taas hylkää sen kaapin pohjalle moneks kuukaudeksi ja kierre jatkuu

[finnishcottagecore]

Ok Hozier…

[swordsswordsswords]

Majority of European languages: we came from proto-indoeuropean

Finnish:

[swordsswordsswords]

On this subject I was looking up the finnish wikipedia page for parsnips (don’t ask) and I came across this sentence:

“Clayey”? Finnish has a word meaning “clayey”??? Truly a language spoken by forests and swamps

[finnishcottagecore]

They didn’t name their country after swamps for nothing

[ruttotohtori]

Lainaan blogiisi ihan vaan vähän, haluun vaan kertoo että olisi taidenäyttely Kaapelitehtaalla 3.5-9.5. Oon ite osana näyttelyy ja oon niin ylpee itest.

Noni ny kaikki ketkä asuu Hesas menee kattoo!

[ruttotohtori]

Mä googlasin Kaapelitehtaan ni se näytti et se o Hesas. Olikse sit väärin?

[torillatavataan]

Se on Hesa. Deal with it, hesalaiset.

[l2g-deactivated20240513]

i love seeing like a picture of grass and going yeah thats in finland and then it is in finland.

[l2g-deactivated20240513]

do not even get me started on forest and lake images. i never miss

[l2g-deactivated20240513]

@webcurse EXACTLY

these could all be from any forest on earth but still were all inherently taken in finland and if i saw any of them on their own i would simply go ’yep. finnish’ and be right. followers please help me provide more pictures these are all like way too easy because i just googled ’finnish nature’.... these dont even count ... its more about the vibe... its about the

[telemarcs]

Ancient Norwegian saying:

“The results don’t matter as long as we beat Sweden”

[lesbiankiliel]

also an ancient finnish saying

[piruvieteri]

[ruttotohtori]

[badhockeymom]

Another Finn to Dallas!

(Sorry it is not about hockey)

Awak Kuier, 19, of Finland was selected by The Dallas Wings as the 2nd overall pick in the 2021 WNBA Draft.

She is the first non-American player to be picked in the top 5 in the last 10 years.

[valilihapiirakka]

The ease of nudity in Finland is something I'm super jealous of, I think it also promotes people being comfortable in their own body, if body's aren't so sexualized and taboo. The only bodies i really saw were in movies, and indeed kids changing on the beach or baby's in diapers. I'm not even from the USA, the Netherlands, so close yet so different!

I think you're right - while I have of course met Finns who are deeply uncomfortable in their own bodies and unhappy about being seen, the absolutely constant, default, "this is considered healthy actually" cultural background radiation of "nudity is always a precursor to sex! nudity is always a precursor to sex!" in many other places does really do a special kind of damage to people's psyche.

I always think of one of my co-workers at a husky farm near Inari, who told me apropos of nothing while we were clearing out dog shit together that he thought the reason Americans are "like that" ("like what, Veikka" got the response "you know what I mean") is because "they never see their grandma's tits." His logic was that "in Finland, you go to the sauna with your grandma from when you're a baby, and you see her naked, and this is years and years before you ever see any porn, so you know before you see any of it that it's temporary and fake. And when you get a girlfriend later, you know it's only a matter of time before her tits look like that too, you accept this. And Americans don't know that! They don't! They look at porn, and then they get a wife, and then they're surprised and bitter when she gets old - it's true!"

Like, to be clear, I think Veikka's analysis might have been missing more than a bit of nuance, this is the same guy whose motto was "Driving 600km south to Rovaniemi to get therapy is expensive, chopping wood till you don't care about it anymore is free", but I do occasionally still look at some British or American take online and think to myself, in his voice, "they've never seen their grandma's tits"

[baixueagain]

quick question op is Veikka single

[fiction-is-not-reality2]

Some of you have never seen your grandma’s tits and it shows 

[doomhamster]

In all fairness to Veikka I’ve seen 5 different therapists now and I’d trade 4 of them in for a good sharp axe and a supply of unchopped firewood in. a. heartbeat.

[ivegotdimpleswhenismile]

Guys Veikka's got many points, stop thirsting on him😂

[valilihapiirakka]

Like 30 people have tagged this post or commented with 'will he marry me' or 'is he single' and I don't know how I failed to expect this outcome from Tumblr tbh. yes he's a 6 foot something, brick shithouse shaped, trained nature guide who likes collecting knives, yes I know this is all conceptually very exciting for a lot of you, no I haven't heard from him recently, no he won't raid your bussy, he's profoundly heterosexual and has no idea what that word means

[fraciel]

life has been a major härdelli lately don't you think

[ruttoo]

A hurlumhei u could even say

[siveydensipuli]

a hulabaloo if you will

[fairandcruel]

Why, it’s a right old hässäkkä

[holonyymi]

outright kalabaliikki when you think about it 

[biosaatana]

a veritable häslinki, if i may be so bold

[siveydensipuli]

laskiaispullaan ei kuulu mielipide

[siveydensipuli]

ennustan vuodelle 2022

vihreä kuula -laskiaispulla

[yetanotherfobfan]

2021 got u covered

[valilihapiirakka]

Mutta ei haittaa, jos laskiaspullaa vihreäkuuloilla ei maistuu, joku on keksinyt toinen kirottu versio

[sipulisipsi]

Toi vihreäkuulalaskiaispulla on radioaktiivinen

[immoren]

Ye Olde News

22.6.1661: Henrik Eolenius, student from Royal Academy of Turku, was charged for witchcraft. Among the other evidence was fact that previously poorly performing Eolenius had suddenly become excellent student.

[totallytruefinlandfacts]

Finland is not a part of Scandinavia. Scandinavia is a part of Finland. Or will be, if my plan succeeds.

[cuteoutlaw]

Uus video mitä ette tienny et tarviitte

[lusiferi]

[juhollamago]

Southern Finland had a snow storm, the food delivery still worked.