  Terve, terve, terve, sinä kaunis pehmonen, kuin villa punanen, lieminä kevätkaritsan, terve kuin aurinko, kuu ja tähtöset! Anterias Joukas, pellon poika Maan mahtava isäntä Kultanuolen kantaja Säästelijä, päästelijä Kylän kylmistä kiroista Nuorten miesten nuoliskoista Otappa hiisi hilkosesti Pahahenki painattamises Tekemähän terveheksi Lypsymaijon lämpöseksi Auringoisen kirkkauveksi Tule, päästä tämäkin päästö Tule, jaksa tääkin jakso! Jos sinä otat multa henken Ja viet tuskin Tuonelaan Ennen aikoja alennat Sen sinä viimen tunnustat Taivaan kuulusan kuninkaan Jalon Jumalan pyhän Templin harjalla hyvän Luona Jortanin joen Pyhän virran partahalla Lijassa leini synty Loukkaus lohikivellä Samarin kirkon kynnyksen alta On kolme tautia matkahan manattu: Rutto, rupuli ja punatauti Salamoonin portto vaimo Istui kivellä kerran Harjaeli hapsijansa Harjalla hopeapäällä Harjasta hopeapäästä Katkesi karas piikkinen Putosi helmahan huoran Polville verisen vaimon Verikintun kintereille Sep on potkasi vetehen Koskehen lutisen karvan Koski sen karille kantoi Loip on rannan hiekkaselle Tuulen tuuviteltavaksi Päivän lämmiteltäväksi Aurinkon ani hyväksi Siinä on sykkö syntynynnä Sukeununna miehen surma Siitä tuulehen tunkeksen Levahtihe lentämään Surmaksi jalon suvun Ristikansan kauhiaksi Lialle sinä synnyit Karille sinä kasvoit Sinä Salomonin porttovaimon poika Joka hauvataan Samarian kirkon kynnyksen alle Yheksän sylen syvään Syltä puolen kymmenettä |
Hail, hail, hail, you beautiful and soft like red wool, as the broths of a spring lamb, hail like the Sun, the Moon and the stars! Anterias Joukas, son of the field The mighty lord of earth The carrier of a golden arrow Sparer, releaser From the cold curses of the village From the arrows of young men Take your [arrow], hiisi Your presser, evil spirit To make healthy As warm as fresh milk As bright as the Sun Come, release [from this] Come, endure [through this] If you take my life And take me to Tuonela in pain Lower me before it's my fated time Then you'll finally acknowledge The famous king of Heaven Noble holy God On the top of a fine temple At the river Jordan At the edge of a holy stream Rheumatism was born in dirt Hurt on a [salmon? blasted?] rock From under the threshold of the church of Samaria Were three illnesses cursed to travel: Plague, diarrhoea and dysentery Salomon's harlot wife Once sat on a rock Brushed her hair With a silver headed brush From the silver headed brush A thorny branch was cut Fell onto the hem of the whore Onto the knees of the bloody woman To the heels of the bloody legs She kicked it into water Into a splashing rapid The rapid carried it aground Pushed to beach sand For the wind to lull For the Sun to warm To be very good to the Sun There, the snake was born The death of man came to be From there, it pushed itself into wind Threw itself to fly The be the death of a noble family To be the horror of people You were born on dirt You grew aground You, the son of Solomon's harlot wife Who will be buried beneath the threshold of the church of Samaria Nine fathoms deep A half of a ten of fathoms |
So, that was very Christianized. That is very on point for runosongs from the very north. But it's all just masking... the "harlot wife of Solomon" is just Louhi and she is the mother and creator of illnesses as always. Also of rheumatism, as we can see, though it is born as a snake or projectile in the wind from a bristle of Louhi's silver brush. I don't know my Bible lore well enough to know why exactly it mentions a church in Samaria specifically. The holy stream, the river Jordan, is used to replace the river of the Underworld. The God and king in Heaven is supposed to refer to Jesus. I didn't know Joukahainen was determined not to acknowledge him, lol. Then again, he does seem to have an issue with Lemminkäinen, the closest equivalent to Jesus you're going to get in Finnish myths. Yes, the mighty lord of earth here, Anterias Joukas, presents Joukahainen and Poika Pohjolainen as one and the same figure: the Lord of Pohjola, son of Louhi, The Shaman, who shoots arrows of pain and illness and shot one at Väinämöinen as well.
In addition to rheumatism, parts of this incantation have been used to heal other illnesses like sudden intestinal pain and abscesses which were believed to have been "shot" into people by our Joukas here.
