Kultapyörä

Nine diseases


Synty neity Pohjolassa
Impi kylmässä kylässä
Loviatar, luonnon vaimo
Tuo ei suostu sulhasihin
Mielly miehihin hyvihin
Neitonen veestä nousi
Hienohelma hettehestä
Tuli sitte mies turilas
Meri-Tursas partalainen
Joka teki neien tiineheksi
Veten kourilla kovilla
Veten vahvan vammuhilla
Kanto kohtua kovoa
Vatan täyttä vaikeata
Kanto kuuta kaksi, kolmet
Kanto kuuta viisi, kuusi
Jo kanto kaheksan kuuta
Kanto kuuta kymmenkunnan
Kanto kuuta kaksitoista
Jo kuulla kahellatoista
Alla raanusan yheksän
Alla viien villavaipan
Teki poikaa yheksän
Kasvatti kaheksan lasta
Yhdestä vatan väestä
Tytty lapsen kymmenennen
Portto Pohjolan emäntä
Sitten nimitteli poikiaan
Kuin kuhin tekemiään
Minkä manasi maoksi
Minkä pani pakkaseksi
Minkä riieksi risäsi
Minkä pisti pistokseksi
Kunka ähkyksi asetti
Minkä luita luistamahan
Jäseniään jäytämähän
Olkapäitä ottamahan
Suonia solottamahan
Missäs on riisi ristittynä
Katopoika kastettuna?
Vierahassa Venäen maassa?
Eipä vielä sielläkään
Missä sitte on riisi ristittynä
Katopoika kastettuna?
Pajassa ovettomassa
Aivan akkunattomassa?
Eipä vielä sielläkään
Missäs sitten riisi ristittynä
Katopoika kastettuna?
Kaivossa Kalevan pojan
Ei ollu vesi puhasta
Jolla riisi ristittihin
Katopoika kastettihin
Huuhto huorat huntujaan
Pahat vaimot paitojaan
Portto poikansa lopetti
Ei vesi puhas ollukaan
Se oli vesi veren näkönen

A maiden was born in Pohjola
A virgin in a cold village
Loviatar, a woman of nature
Does not accept a bridegroom
Does not like good men
The maiden rose from water
The fine hemmed one from a quagmire
Then came a man, a giant
Meri-Tursas from the the brink
Who made the maiden pregnant
With the hard fists of water
With the strong waves of water
She carried the hard womb
A difficult stomachfull
Carried for two, three months
Carried for five, six months
Carried for eight months too
Carried for ten months
Carried for twelve months
On the twelfth months
Beneath nine blankets
Under five woollen capes
She made nine sons
Brought up eight children
From one stomachfull
The tenth one was a girl
The harlot Lady of Pohjola
Then named her children
Like anyone their creations
One was cursed to be a snake
One was set as frost
One was christened as rickets
One was set as a sting
One was made horse colic
One was made to slide off bones
To gnaw on limbs
To grab onto shoulders
To make veins ache
Where was rickets christened
The son of loss baptized?
In the foreign Russian land?
No, he was not
Then where was rickets christened
The son of loss baptized?
In a doorless forge
With no windows?
No, he was not
Then where was rickets christened
The son of loss baptized?
In the well of a son of Kaleva
The water was not pure
Which rickets was christened with
The son of loss baptized with
There, whores washed their veils
Evil women their shirts
A harlot put down her son
The water was not pure
It was water which looked like blood

First, there is like a trillion different versions of this because it's a very common myth. Sometimes the cause of pregnancy is wind, here it's waves. Obvious Christian influence is obvious: some version even add in Louhi's beef with John the Baptist. She asks John to baptize her children, but he tells her to ~fuck off, whore~. It is after this that she baptizes them herself. This is assumed to come from the fact that Christians associated Louhi with Herodias, the cause of John the Baptist's beheading.

Calling Loviatar/Louhi a "woman of nature" indeed implies that she is a luonnotar.