Muailman syndy
Description of the lyrics:
Sotka* flies over the sea for a long time, only briefly resting on reeds, until it finally finds something that resembles a land. It’s the knee of a väinämöinen or tiedoiniekka, a powerful sage. On that knee the birds builds it’s copper nest and lays a golden egg. As the bird hatches the egg, the heat of the nest makes the knee tremble and the egg falls into the sea and breaks. From the bottom part of the shell the Aline (heaven below) is made, from the top the Yline (heaven above). The white of the egg becomes Päivöne (the silvery sun) and the yolk becomes Kuudama (the golden moon). The dots of the shell become stars in the sky.
*A bird, in different parts Karelia this bird is described as either with a generic term for water birds, specifically the common goldeneye, a straight winged big bird that reminds hawks and falcons, a cuckoo or many more. What stays common is that a bird gave birth to the egg that became this world.
Suistaman virzilöi
This Karelian poem song is a part of a Suistaman virzilöi -series that I’ve compiled. See lyrics and brief descriptions in English from this booklet:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/...