Comments on: Honoring our Kindred http://www.tseka.com/2007/12/06/honoring-our-kindred/ one dance art poety myth by Ellen Hill Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:07:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Tseka http://www.tseka.com/2007/12/06/honoring-our-kindred/#comment-28 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 05:32:47 +0000 http://www.tseka.com/2007/12/06/honoring-our-kindred/#comment-28 <em>"When you speak of Hel and the teachings from the North, they resonate greatly with me. </em> <em>The first syllable is always stressed and the person who translated the Kalevala picked up on that rhythm very well."</em> All of the circupolar myths resonate with me in ways that the myths of the south do not. Perhaps it is encoded in the "ghost" DNA some so lightly call junk. The Kalevala was for centuries an oral poem. Shamanic. Imagine remembering something that epic “When you speak of Hel and the teachings from the North, they resonate greatly with me.
 The first syllable is always stressed and the person who translated the Kalevala picked up on that rhythm very well.”

All of the circupolar myths resonate with me in ways that the myths of the south do not. Perhaps it is encoded in the “ghost” DNA some so lightly call junk.
The Kalevala was for centuries an oral poem. Shamanic. Imagine remembering something that epic

]]> by: Neith http://www.tseka.com/2007/12/06/honoring-our-kindred/#comment-26 Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:58:39 +0000 http://www.tseka.com/2007/12/06/honoring-our-kindred/#comment-26 I'm enjoying your writings so much! When you speak of Hel and the teachings from the North, they resonate greatly with me. Most of my antecedents came from one or another of the northern countries . . . :-) Another tidbit on Finnish. The first syllable is always stressed and the person who translated the Kalevala picked up on that rhythm very well. I’m enjoying your writings so much! When you speak of Hel and the teachings from the North, they resonate greatly with me. Most of my antecedents came from one or another of the northern countries . . . :-)

Another tidbit on Finnish. The first syllable is always stressed and the person who translated the Kalevala picked up on that rhythm very well.

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