Mythology of Kerimaa: Marvelous Adventures of Väinämöinen

By Pekka Nurminen

Secret History of The Universe

A new exciting information has been released about the Finnish national epic Kalevala. Researcher Pekka Nurminen has located, in his book Kerimaa Mythology, the Kalevala's origin in eastern Finland to an area, where nowadays locates the Kerimaa Holiday Center and golf course. The new research explains the world's creation and development history partly based on the Kalevala epic's framework, but the book unveils completely new and surprising information about the dawn of history.

The book offers explanations for, among other things, big bang, deluge, the Mystery of Atlantis, ancient megalith palaces and the building of pyramids. The book focuses on ancient matters which the Kalevala's creator, Elias Lönnrot, did not either know or intentionally left them out from his version of Kalevala.

Savonlinna's Kerimaa Holiday Center is the origin of the ancient Kalevala. The signs of a culture, which disappeared a long time ago, can still be found. The tales have been passed as tradition from generation to another, the place names have references to Kalevala. A slowly crumbling holy glacial erratic can also be found there, Kerimaa's mythological symbol, which was thrown there by the Scandinavia's lore's Ymir giant. A path of love, marked by Ilmatar (the same good as Ishtar, Isis, Astarte and Aphrodite), can be found in Kerimaa, which still radiates strong magical fertility and finding of true love. Above all, the secret of the identity of Santa Claus is glooming over Kerimaa.

Wild, epic, story collection carries the reader through historical and unhistorical events. The researcher-author Pekka Nurminen assures: “All of this is true and can also be found on Wikipedia. If it is not there, then the issue is in Wikipedia's insufficient updating.”

• Language: English
• Publisher: Books on Demand
• Release date: Mar 4, 2016
• ISBN: 9789523306004

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1.THE LEGEND OF GIANTS AN GREAT STONES

In ancient times, ice covered half of the territory of the whole world. The Kingdom of Ice was populated by giants, trolls, goblins, witches and a horde of all kinds of gnomes. Giants fought with people, while trolls daunted everybody who dared to enter primeval forests. People were of small stature, but very brave and sturdy. And the Sun was with people. Little by little, people advanced their settlements farther and farther to the north, and the territory of the Kingdom of Ice was shrinking. Again and again, Giants and trolls had to leave their places of abode under the pressure of people and retreat to even more remote corners of Pohjola.

Finally, giants lost their patience and flew into a rage seeing that they are being deprived of their native land. At that time, rough cliffs emerged from under the thawing ice. Giants crushed the cliffs and started throwing huge blocks of rock at people. One of such stones can be seen now in Kerimaa-Kerilandia, but they are also found throughout Finland, in Scandinavia, the Baltic States and even in other European countries. In Europe, they are called megaliths. People have used them to build high palaces, monuments and mysterious ritual structures (for example, Stonehenge). Some stones thrown the farthest can be seen in Mecca and even in Australia (Ayers Rock).

Ymir giant throwing boulders approximately 10 000 years ago

2. THE LEGEND OF THE GREAT STONE OF KERIMAA

The ice that covered in the ancient times the whole world started to thaw little by little and the border of the Kingdom of Ice was slowly receding northwards. Enraged giants, the inhabitants of the Kingdom of Ice started throwing stones southwards.

Väinämöinen, wise old man, who lived in his homeland of Kerimaa, once was walking about, when suddenly a huge stone thudded just beside him.

Väinämöinen looked at the stone in amazement and said (free translation):

"The stone seemed not a trivial one,

Tremendous boulder stone it was,

One hundred fathoms tall it stood,

Five miles breadth ways the stone lay."

(A poem not included in Kalevala)

Väinämöinen built a home under the stone and used it for temporary staying during his long travels and fishing. On the Kannantakainen lake, taimen and vendace fishing was good, the surrounding woods were full of sweet berries and mushrooms. From time to time, Väinämöinen was lucky in his skiing chase after an elk in the thick lonely woods of Huosio. Though mostly he wandered in houses and estates telling tales, playing kantele and fooling around with maids.

3. DELUGE

More or less all of the old legends and religions have a tale about the great deluge. The myth of deluge can be found from over 150 folks and there are hundreds of different versions of it. Every myth has similar features and many of the respected researchers are agreeing that they are deriving from real, genuine event in the blurry prehistory.

What did really take place back then? According to an early version of Kalevala in the very beginning there was the Primordial Sea covering the whole surface of the Earth for many infinities. Young Väinämöinen floated alone in the enormous sea for hundreds of years without any knowledge of what life could be. One day, Väinämöinen got a vicious cramp and sank several kilometres to the depths of the sea before reaching the bottom. If someone else had been in his shoes, the story wouldn’t have ended well. But Väinömöinen, being young and strong as ever at that time, pounded the sea bottom with his fists and created a hole in to the Earth’s crust.

The water began to flow inside the hot and fiery Earth’s crust. The water level descended and the mountains, gullies and plateaus got exposed from the sea. After a while of trickling, Väinämöinen rolled a big stone to cover the hole in order to prevent the disappearance of all the water from the surface of the Earth. Väinämöinen pushed from the bottom and after reaching the surface he glanced around with amazement.

Kerimaa and the whole world unfolded before his eyes. There were Kannantakainen and Sylkynjärvi, and a bit farther Puruvesi and Saimaa. The rivers were rushing and the moist ground began to increment trees and bushes.

Even today in the north end of Kerimaa’s lake Kannantakainen there is an opening in the depth of tens of kilometres, which is enclosed by a big stone leading to the bottom of the Earth’s crust.

Nowadays Kerimaa’s Kannantakainen is a small lake full of fish. Divers are able to see the stone in the bottom of the lake. The stone should not be moved, since even the rest of the lakes and seas of the world would dash straight inside the Earth’s burning crust.