Digging for Hitler: The Nazi Archaeologists Search for an Aryan Past by Barrowclough David

Author:Barrowclough, David [Barrowclough, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 9781781555002
Publisher: Fonthill Media
Published: 2017-05-17T22:00:00+00:00

Even the outer appearance of the Finnish person is telling. Blond and tall, on average taller than the Germans, with mostly blue eyes or grey eyes, they belong racially to western or northern Europe.21

Himmler also relished what Grönhagen had to say on the subject of The Kalevala. As Grönhagen pointed out, the people of Karelia, whose songs were immortalised in The Kalevala, still preserved many of their ancient customs and religious beliefs.22 Indeed, as Finnish folklorists had discovered, the remote territory was a refuge of paganism, a land where traditionalists still practised an ancient form of shamanism. In Karelia, seers still recited magical spells to call upon spirits and gods, who in turn might help divine the future, cure chronic diseases, assist in childbirth, and protect families from harm. Many rural Karelians still revered and feared these magicians. Grönhagen later observed:

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