The Northern Fire

Playing with fire

Wanting to go higher

Dance till you starve

Under the stars

Above the northern fire

Higher and higher

Feeling lighter

Mightier

The strongest warrior

New day rises

Burning out the fires

Feet on the ground

Can you light another one

For the sun

Hylättyjä Unelmia / Abandoned Dreams

Abandoned Places, Unfinished Cottage

Lapland

Expensive dreams

Empty needs

Can't you see

It's killing we

Common expectations

Social creations

Never enough

Better enough

Build a bigger house

Under the heavy clouds

No doubts

This is the dream house

What now honey

We run out of money

Would now seem

It was only a broken dream

Illusion of the mainstream
Splitting half our team

Hot chocolate with mint

Did you really think

You could sink

The agony yet in an other drink

After everything went wrong
Only left with a sad song
In a downhill too long

And now even the rum is gone

*****

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The abandoned town of Crownmountain
An old Finnish school
A spa of misfortune

Tarinoita ikiyöstä

Osa 17

Tasaisen tumman valkoista

Sinisen harmaata

Silmän kantamattomiin

Lumilakeuden rikkoi siellä täällä kitukasvuisena sinnittelevät tummemmat varjot

Tyttö jatkoi taivaltaan

Välillä lumen pinta lähes kantoi

Mutta usein miten
Se upotti koko jalan mitalta

Jokaisella humahduksella
Tyttö pelkäsi hyisien sormien kiertyvän nilkkansa ympärille

Tähän saakka ne olivat pysyneet poissa

Hän oli onnistunut välttämään mustat suon silmät

Vaanivat lumipeitteen alla

Vaikka Tyttö koitti astua kuinka varoen

Piti rikkoutuva lumenpinta korvia huumaavaa meteliä hiljaisessa ikiyössä

Sihinä alkoi ensin vaimeana

Kuin pieni vesipisara

Tai nokare lunta kuumalla kivellä

Samalla hetkellä

Sihinän yhä voimistuessa

Alkoi lumen pinta hohtaa vihreää hohdettaan

Tyttö tiesi liiankin hyvin mitä oli tulossa

Hän pysäytti rohisevat askeleensa

Jäi seisomaan hiiren hiljaa paikoilleen

Varovasti kulmiensa alta vilkaisi taivaalle

Näki tuttujen vihreiden aaltojen syöksyvän mustan taivaan halki

Sähähtelevän halki ikiyön

Pimeyden ruhtinatar oli liikkeellä taas

Ei hätää ollut

Ei niin kauan kuin olisi aloillaan

Huomiota herättämättä

Liian kauan taivaan tulileikkiä tuijottamatta

Näiden voimien kanssa ei ollut leikkiminen

Sen Tyttö oli oppinut vuosia sitten

Kun kuunlapset olivat pelastaneet hänet

Käärineet lämpimiin turkiksiin
Löydyttyään alastomana hangesta

Tyttö oli kuitenkin onnitunut
Vapauttanut yön ruhtinattaren kokoelmaansa vangitsemat olennot

Tyttö värähti muistolle

Hänestäkin olisi voinut tulla yksi niistä

Lasikopeissa näytteillä olevista

Vain yksi uusi tulokas
Loputtomassa kokoelmassa

Yksikään elävä olento ei ollut turvassa

Taivaalla tuli leikki alkoi hiipua

Yönvaltiaan silmä alkoi kääntyä toisaalle

Jännitys Tytön lihaksissa alkoi laantua
Hän uskalsi hengittää syvään

Silloin se tuli

Kova paukahdus

Kiiri yli hyisen lakeuden

Kaikui takaisin jäisistä ikihongista

Tytön niskakarvat nousivat pystyyn

Uusi paukahdus

Samassa taivaan tulet sähähtivät uuteen roihuun

Koko taivas tulessa

Paukahdukset jatkuivat
Rytmikäämpinä
Äänekkäämpinä

Kuka uskalsi rummuttaa taivaan tulille!

Kuka uskalsi uhmata pimeyden valtiatarta!

Kylmyys alkoi hiipiä Tytön jännittyneisiin lihaksiin

Hyinen kosteus tiivistyä vaatteilleen

Pitäisi päästä liikkeelle

Pian

Muutoin pakkas rouva kuorruttaisi hänet sokeriseen huurteeseen

Tekisi hänestä uuden jäisen veistoksen lumi puutarhaansa

Tyttö liikutteli kylmän kangistamia jäseniään

Otti muutaman varovaisen askeleen

Edelleen tietoisena lumikuoren rasahtelusta jalkojensa alla

Nyt kuitenkin hukkui rumpujen kuminaan

Valtiattaren huomio oli kääntynyt ääntä kohden

Tyttö hiipi varoen jäisen suon lakaudelta

Katosi äänettömästi öisen jäämetsän varjojen suojiin

On the way home

The time had come

Snow was melting

Sun was big and warm

The darkness gave way to the light

It was time to go back

To The South

I packed my few belongings

And lifted my little back bag on my shoulders

I was ready

I gave a last longing look

To the three mountains

I would miss them

A small red bubble

Was standing on my cabin's front door

What the heck?

Next to the bubble was standing Jeti

He glanced me shyly

"I want to come with you."

I smiled

Leaving Jeti here

Would had been the hardest thing to do

As it turned out

The red bubble was some kind of a vehicle

We stuffed our self in

And started rolling south

On the way

We could see

The summer coming

Faster and faster

Like a one whole season

Just winding past us

The moment was ours

Our own little road trip

We enjoyed the way

and stopped for any wonder

Like for The Dancing Swan

Though Jeti said

That it probably just had fleas

But I wanted to believe

It was dancing for The Lady Spring

"There is a canyon on the left."

"Where?!"

"I dunno. The sign just said 'a canyon on the left'."

It was called

The WallMountain's Canyon

And  in the evening gloom
It was pretty amazing

Loving high places
I was thrilled
On the edge of the canyon
Jeti was uneasy
He had sometimes started to fear for me

At the bottom of the canyon
Was really dark
You could feel the big stone walls above you
The air was heavy and moist
I wanted back up
Where I could feel light again

Jeti liked it here
He found some comfort
From the darkness and the big walls around him
We felt like the fairy and the troll
From the children song

Arrival to The South
Didn't feel like coming home
I wondered
If I had never really felt
Like home here

'Home is were your heart is'
They say
And from many crossroads
I have been in my life
Many beautiful souls
Still carries a peaces of my heart
With them
I always feel like home

I glanced at Jeti
And I knew
In his white soft fur
I would make my home now

Noitatunturi / The WitchHill

Pyhätunturi / The HolyHill

Clouds were hanging heavily over the sky

The HolyHills

All three of them

Were wrapped in thick fog

But I wouldn't care

Every day is a new adventure

And today would be the biggest of them all

I would climb on top of the WitchHill

But not alone

An another explorer would join me

To share this adventure

He was waiting for me

At the edge of the frozen swamp

Jeti

Half a man half a yeti

He looked beautiful

His white lion fur wavering in the wind

He smiled at me

I felt something warm

Lighting up inside me

We started climbing up

It was really warm day

And the snow was already rotting

Time to time

The surface of the snow

Would let our steps down

It was hard work

But glancing back every now and then

Would tell us

We really had made some progress

On our journey

Soon we started to reach the clouds

Ahead of us were no big trees anymore

Just some tiny and really tough ones

In Finnish

I would call this tiny trees "sisukas"

Which means that they won't give up

Neither would us

Next to us

Was the God's Hat

And little by little

As we climbed higher

It's top vanished to the clouds

Finally there were no more trees

Not even the small ones

Only white snow

As far as you could see

Which wasn't so far

To be honest

Soon there was

No sky

No horizon

No ground

No shapes

No up

No down

Now would be better

To stay together

Our world shrinked

To a couple square meters

Only our own footprints

Vanishing to the nothingness

The air started to freeze
Literally
We could see the air freezing around us
Shivering went through me
Suddenly I felt really cold

Did you here that?

Did you see that?

What?

"Are you, are you

Coming to the tree

Where they strung up a man

They say who murdered three

Strange things did happen here

No stranger would it be

If we met at midnight

In the hanging tree."

*******

Afterwards Jeti told me

This was the best adventure ever

I smiled

This was the best adventure yet

Isokuru ja Uhriharju / The DeepCanyon and The SacrificeHill

Pyhätunturi / The HolyHill

It was a very windy day

I climbed on top of the the GoldenHill

The first of the HolyHills

It was hard to stand up in the wind

I enjoyd the sun warming my skin

And the wind roaring around me

Ripping my clothes

In the west I could see the other two

The second one was called The God's Hat

And behind that

Was the greatest of them all

The WitchHill

 Today I would walk trough The DeepCanyon

Which lies between The GoldenHill and The God's Hat

They say it's the deepest canyon in Finland

I can believe that

After doing some unpurposed clift hanging

I found the path leading to the canyon

At the mouth of the canyon

They were trying to stop me

Yeah, right

I'll take this as an invitation

To an adventure

At first

The canyon is actually two smaller canyons

The BearCanyon and The LampioCanyon

 I couldn't translate "lampio" to anything clever

The google told me

That it is just a rare surname in Finland

Like every fifth person in Finland has a rare surname

Anyway

Lam-pi-o without o is a pond

And shovel without m

The path leads the traveller

On a narrow and high hill

Between these smaller canyons

Before they join to each other

To make The DeepCanyon 

This narrow high hill

Surrounded by canyons

Is called The SacrificeHill

They say

The old Sami people used to come here

And sacrifice for the spirits

To get some hunting luck

I don't wonder why they came here

It really feels like a sacret place

I stand quiet

My eyes closed

Sensing the old air

The old energy

I leave a piece of my granolabar for the spirits

And ask them protection

Before I continue my journey

The path to the bottom of the canyon

Is really steep and slipery

Where there is stairs at summer time

Is now just an icy slide

When I'm slideing down

Way too fast

And saving my self from couple 90 degree turns

I wish I had a GoPro 

 At the bottom lies an other sacred place

(Well dah, this is The HolyHills)

The frozen waterfall and pond

Called The HolyWaterfall of Baptism

And The Holypond of Baptism

Like the whole hillside area

This was also a sacred place for old Sami people

So when the Christians came

And wanted to give a baptism to Sami people

They fulfill the rite in the holy water of the waterfall 

In the waterfall

I found an icecave

As a kinda small person

I was able to crowle in

Standing in the cave

I could feel

The holy water dripping on me

It was a kind of baptism

It felt nice

I thanked God for leading me to this place

And protecting me on my way 

As I walked further to the canyon

Sun started to set

And shadows woke up around me

The moon came to keep me company

I could feel the evening magic

All around me

As I walked home

The night had already come

And the old God send me His regards

A thought came from my hearth

Full of love

I'm really lucky

Blessed