Baltic-Finnish mythology in art

[Talvi]

Because I want to share my recent discoveries with you all.
Here are some awesome pictures from the epic Kalevala. Coal drawings by Jüri Arrak.

http://pics.livejournal.com/klan_land/pic/000qypc2/s640x480

I think this one is Ilmarise. Drawing for runo XIX, Ilmarisen ansiotyöd.
http://pics.livejournal.com/klan_land/pic/000rba0z/s640x480

Väinämöinen. Runo L called Väinamöisen lähto.
http://pics.livejournal.com/klan_land/pic/000rr0x1/s640x480

Kullervo in Kullervon kuolo. Runo XXXVI
http://pics.livejournal.com/klan_land/pic/000rdf6p/s640x480

Pohjolän isanän surma. Runo XXVII
http://pics.livejournal.com/klan_land/pic/000rcgqw/s640x480

And of course my favourite - Väinämöisen kandelensoitto. Runo XLIV, Väinämöinen.
http://pics.livejournal.com/klan_land/pic/000rht1z/s640x480

[The Ripper]

Without question, the most famous Finnish artistic depictions of our mythology come from Akseli Gallén-Kallela (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akseli_Gallen-Kallela).

Some more modern renditions...

Cubistic Forging of the Sampo:

http://www.ateneum.fi/kalevalataidettakouluille/images/ilmarinen/pusa-iso.jpg

These (http://kalevala.gov.karelia.ru/art/izo_e.html) Russian-Karelian works are quite nice, too.

http://kalevala.gov.karelia.ru/art/kalev7.jpg

http://kalevala.gov.karelia.ru/art/kalev9.jpg

[The Ripper]

Here are some pictures I took at an amateur museum on an island called Kaunissaari (lit. Beautiful Island), just outside of Kotka.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v103/wilpuri/sekalaista/DSC00846.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v103/wilpuri/sekalaista/DSC00843.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v103/wilpuri/sekalaista/DSC00842.jpg