COMPARING FINNISH & RUSSIAN EASTER

[@leopartanen9431]

Pääsiäinen means "the day when you get out of fasting". It derives from the verb päästä = "to be released". Mikael Agricola invented that word for the Finnish language. Ps. In Kekri, there is also a bonfire, unfortunately it's kind of obsolete though.

[@ValWasTakenWasTaken]

When I was around 15, a little kid came to our door with some of the easter twigs. I wasn't prepared for that so I gave her a "roiskeläppä", a microwave pizza, as a reward

[@AlenaTalks]

Perfect😂

[@Auritilien]

Iconic :''DDD

[@Aurinkohirvi]

By the way, put the chocolate egg in fridge for a moment before peeling it. So the chocolate doesn't melt in your fingers. It's easier peel.

[@AlenaTalks]

I’ll do it next time!

[@arska77]

I think here in Finland Easter is mostly for kids nowadays. Chocolate eggs and things like that. When do you make video about those funny clips what you have cutted off? 😜👍

[@AlenaTalks]

We’re all kids deep down😁 Oh, I’ve already deleted those clips😅

[@arska77]

@@AlenaTalks Yes we are, that is so true😃 Oh no, why did you deleted them 😭 I dont believe you 🤔

[@AlenaTalks]

@@arska77 I don’t keep leftover videos for the sake of space on my computer

[@arska77]

@@AlenaTalks ok👍

[@JaffaJannu]

That Mignon egg package looks a lot like regular Finnish one that also has a little introduction to it's history in Finnish, English and Russian maybe also Swedish but I can't recall that. Also it's really not chocolate but almond nougat. A bit like solid Nutella if you like to call it.

[@AlenaTalks]

Yeah, I realized that it’s closer to nougat when I ate more of it!

[@michaelrosel1951]

I like your channel. You are very charming. And very informative.

[@Idefixu]

Very good Finnish pronunciation, bravo! The bonfires are to scare off witches, mostly on the west coast, in Pohjanmaa, Ostrobotnia. It is a traditional way to use onion peels to colour eggs yellow, why not red too. I think nowadays water colours and a brush are used to colour Easter eggs. You can do both for the same egg I guess. I do not like mämmi very much, it's not bad, but I can do without, same thing with pasha. It has never been a tradition in my family. I tried some pasha from Lidl a year or two ago, and I did not like it very much. Funny thing that Lidl sells mämmiwienerbread and pashapulla and I like both. I'm not religious, but I believe in Russia Easter is the number one Christian event, propably in other Orthodox Christian countries too, I guess in Catholic coutries as well. In Finland Xmas is more important for Christians, (and pagans), than Easter. I agree it's good to have something fun for the kids, otherwise long holidays can feel too long for them. I heard that Lidl gave sticker for customers to put on their door, so kids know that they are welcome to collect their treats. I can only imagine all the things people who are not prepared give children. Someone mentioned roiskeläppäpitsa. Why not, some kids might love it. They get so much chocolate anyway. On coming springtime traditions in Finland: Kevätpörriäinen magazine, (kevät = spring, pörriäinen = kimalainen = bumble bee, pörriäinen refers to the sound kimalainen makes), made, with the help from teachers, by school children. They get an euro or two for each copy they sell, usually outdoors. It is such a funny magazine, with drawings and jokes. Vappukukka, 1st of May flower, tradition. It's not a real flower, but a pin. Children sell those too. They get maybe one euro for each they sell. Yhe profit goes to charity. I remember when I was a teenager a child wanted to sell me one and she called me 'setä', uncle. That was the first time ever for me and I felt so old. Lol. In Finland children call older men they do not know "setä". "Täti", aunt, is what they call older women. Have a nice Easter!

[@AlenaTalks]

Great spring traditions, thanks for sharing! It’s both cute and educating - kids learn to earn money for their work. By the way, in Russia kids also call older unfamiliar people aunts and uncles :) Happy Easter to you too!

[@pystykorva7114]

A lot of the pagan traditions were replaced by christian ones so a lot of the old habits date even further back than christianity. For politic reasons the christianity is often shown as a beginning of everything ;)

[@AlenaTalks]

Yeah, Easter used to be Ostara back then :)

[@qwineth]

Oh yes, the Easter bonfires in my native Ostrobothnia - a Swedish influence I gather. On Easter Saturday the Christ has not risen yet, so witches and devils fly around and we lit bonfires to chase them away :) A lovely tradition!

[@AlenaTalks]

Poor witches😅

[@qwineth]

:) Indeed

[@Aurinkohirvi]

In Easter we celebrate strange magical bunny that lays chocolate eggs. Fully a fantasy made-up holiday for me, nothing Christian in it. Yes when I was in elementary school we grew grass there and made little yellow chickens, then waited the grass grow. It's a thing some kids do, well, maybe some adults too. So I guess it's a holiday of watching grass growing too. Willow is an important pagan magical tree. Its bark has healing properties and magic wands were made of willow. Whipping people with willows drives evil spirits that cause misfortune and illness out of body. So kid witches (actually they are witches, not trolls) are copying shamans who healed people. For me Easter is about mämmi, which I eat with licorice ice cream. And it's delicious as heck, best mix with ice cream ever! And of course I buy too much candy so that if easter witches come and wish health for me, I have excess candy I "have to" eat myself. As a kid yes we painted eggs and I recall it was fun as a kid. We used regular water colors, and all colors were allowed. Now that I think back, we painted eggs in school too.

[@AlenaTalks]

Well, there’s never too much candy😁 Great memories!

[@samspencer582]

Hyvää pääsiäistä Alena. How do you say Happy Easter in Russian?

[@AlenaTalks]

Hyvää pääsiäistä! In Russian it’s pronounced as “schastlivoi pashi” :)

[@samspencer582]

@@AlenaTalks Spassibo kiitos Alena.

[@michaelrosel1951]

"He has risen indeed."

[@MrCurwen]

We should import like emu eggs and do that chokolate filling with those, you'd get bigger Mignon eggs then! =D Keep your windows shut, that fire in the news today looks absolutely horrible!

[@AlenaTalks]

I live very far from that place, but it is horrible indeed!

[@michaelrosel1951]

"He is risen."

[@humis69]

Easter is much more Easter in Russia than Finland 😂 Sorry, just had to 🙃 Happy Easter, stay healthy and safe 🤗 (Greetings from Oulu).

[@AlenaTalks]

Happy Easter!

[@jussi6905]

hyvää pääsiäistä

[@AlenaTalks]

Hyvää pääsiäistä to you too!

[@Engycation]

Nice Video Go A Head

[@Misgu1]

Are you going to move to finland?

[@AlenaTalks]

I am, just gotta figure out how to do it🙈

[@Misgu1]

@@AlenaTalks must be difficult right now. In finland its quite huge topic how to get professionals outside finland to immigrate and work because there is shortage of those people! So Im sure you will get a job 😁

[@AlenaTalks]

@@Misgu1 hopefully!🤞🏻

[@AppalakkiWatchman]

Not a fan of Finnish traditions on things. I don't think the Finnish people know what they are. "We celebrate these Christian things but we're really not Christians." "We are pagans but we really don't know anything about paganism" "We worship Satan so we are pagans" The last one is a real quote. Soo... You worship a Judeo Christian fallen angel , but you still call yourself a pagan lol

[@anssisorvisto3191]

Judeo-Christian tearm usage comes mainly from the US right wing Christian nationalist, which started using that during the cold war. There are very few things that are Judeo-Christian. There are many Jewish traditions and many different Christian traditions usually influenced by local pagan tradition, since Christianity was usually plastered over on the local tradition, when local rulers converted to Christianity. So, don't just label some tradition as fake. It is a tradition like any other. Most of the older eastern Orthodox Christian and Catholic traditions follow same patterns, those are influenced by more ancient traditions that are adopted from the Romans, Jews, Persians among others.