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No more to glimmer

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Louhi, hostess of Pohyola,
Northland’s old and toothless wizard,
Makes the Sun and Moon her captives;
In her arms she takes fair Luna
From her cradle in the birch-tree,
Calls the Sun down from his station,
From the fir-tree’s bending branches,
Carries them to upper Northland,
To the darksome Sariola;
Hides the Moon, no more to glimmer,
In a rock of many colors;
Hides the Sun, to shine no longer,
In the iron-banded mountain

Kalevala, Rune XLVII, translated by John Martin Crawford

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Posted by Michael Hartford | Dec 14, '07 | 35mm, Black & White, Pinned & Wriggling, Winter, Yashica, through the spaces of the dark |




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