


![]() 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.