CHILDREN OF FINLAND

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Enigmas del Poder CHILDREN OF FINLAND

| |La Sociedad Postpoética| |

JOSÉ JESÚS VILLA PELAYO

May 14, 2022

|1 "The path is already indicated, a new path is opening (...) /among the young people who are growing up, /among the adolescent lineage."

KALEVALA

In a painting by the Finnish painter Akseli Gallen-Kallela, titled "Lemminkäinen's Mother" from 1897, a woman looking heavenward, with devotion, places her right hand on the solar plexus of a dead youth, right next to a river with huge bloody stones. The forehead of the young man, who is her son, is covered by a white handkerchief while he lies on another white cloth, and although the body, complete and pale, remains on the left side of this woman's feet, on her right side rests part of its skeleton, including the skull and probably a femur. In reality, the painting shows a scene from the Kalevala - the great Finnish national epic, compiled by Elias Lönnrot -, in which the mother of the hero and martyr Lemminkäinen has pulled some of his lifeless body parts out of the Tuonela River and is

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