Genesis

Marie M.

In the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic, there is a myth of the world being created from the fragments of an egg laid by a diving duck on the knee of Ilmatar, goddess of the air. And in that set, you'll find my own reading of that myth. You can follow the poem to discover it...


One egg's lower half transformed
And became the earth below,
And its upper half transmuted
And became the sky above;
From the yolk the sun was made,
Light of day to shine upon us;
From the white the moon was formed,
Light of night to gleam above us;
All the colored brighter bits
Rose to be the stars of heaven
And the darker crumbs changed into
Clouds and cloudlets in the sky.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia entry about 'World Egg'
The whole text can be found here [The Kalevala, by Elias Lönnrot, Translated by John Martin Crawford].

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