The Story of Creation

Once upon a time there was a lonely maiden who got bored with living alone.
The maiden walked down to the shore and went swimming. The sea made the maiden pregnant.

But the maiden got bored with her pregnancy that lasted seven years, and asked the God to help her. And in no time a pochard looking for a place for a nest flew to her.

In the pochard’s nest there were six golden eggs and one iron egg.
The pochard’s nest was on the maiden’s knee. It started to tire the maiden.

She moved her knee and the eggs fell in to the sea and started to form into different parts of the world: the sky, the earth, the sun, the moon, the stars and the clouds.

But the maiden was still in the sea and she was still pregnant. At last she held up her head from the sea and started to till the soil. She worked hard and the ground began to get its shape, but Vainamoinen wasn’t yet born. Vainamoinen started thinking about the world in the womb. Then Vainamoinen was born and he stood up on his two legs.

The maiden was wondering who would sow the plants on the bare ground. Sampsa Pellervoinen sew all kinds of plants and the trees started to grow well.
Then the plants started to grow and the birds started to sing.

But one of the trees didn’t grow. God´s holy oak was planted again and it was put among the ashes and so the oak also started to grow.


The oak grew too much, so Vainamoinen wondered who would fall it. Vainamoinen´s mother helped him; she sent a little man to fall the tree.The little man grew up in an instant and cut down the tree with three strikes and everything was fine again.

If you cut a branch of the oak, you will get everlasting happiness.
If you take the top of it, you’ll get magic powers and ...

if you take a leaf you will get everlasting love.