This website was officially founded on December 17, 2025. Its name comes from the Finnish runosong Kultapyörätammi ("Golden Wheel Oak"), which includes descriptions of the Sun and the world tree.
I know these... retro web circles are full of websites built on aesthetics and such, but that has nothing to do with what I'm doing here. I take this topic quite seriously and want to provide actual helpful information. Any social media-esque Neocities callout post things or whatever such should be left at the door, thanks.
I guess it's obvious that this site also has a big focus on regionality. While we think of one "Finland" and one "Finnish people", different regions can actually differ from each other quite a bit, even in runosong traditions. I do not like painting it with one big brush. Especially during Covid times, there was online controversy over which tradition is "actually" Finnish and which is Karelian only. I'm not really interested in having convos about this, so I'll make it simple for you: this site is not focused on anything Karelian. Not White Karelia, not Olonets, not Ladoga, not North Karelia or South Karelia or the Isthmus. Regardless of the languages of the runosongs from those regions and if one group of Karelians are included in the "Finnish" umbrella term or not, I've decided to exclude them all because I am not interested in talking about this. And I will not accept the misinformation about certain Eastern Finnish things being ~only Karelian and not Finnish~ when they are, indeed, also Eastern Finnish (sometimes also Ostrobothnian). So at least you can trust that anything on this website is truly Finnish and nothing Karelian-only because I am very precise about this.
I haven't made any proper buttons for this website yet, but since I hastily needed one earlier, I guess you can use this one:
Below, I will provide with some good resources for Finnish myth related things. Below that, I'll explain a little bit of some of my personal views on these matters. It's at the very bottom because 1) you probably don't give a rat's ass, or 2) you might get offended by something I said, or 3) both. If so, sorry I can't speak correctly.
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Apart from the ones that are already on the front page!
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