AMORPHIS " The Bee " [ Reaction ] | UK REACTOR |

[@miisalo]

Lot of Amorphis songs are based on Finnish national epic poem Kalevala. In Kalevala hero called Lemminkäinen is killed, mutilated and body parts dropped to river of Tuonela, underworld. Mother of Lemminkäinen basically sews him back together and then asks bee to bring him healing honey. They finally succeed to bring Lemminkäinen back to life when bee flies behind the sun and moon and stars to the castle of Ukko, supreme God, and brings back the healing palm from the urns there.

[@infin8reactions]

Thank you!! 😁👌

[@Kai_kmk]

"The bee is a prominent character in the Kalevala and features in moments of birth and resurrection. Once the world has been created we are informed: ‘“from the clouds dripped honey.’ The women of the north are coveted, not just for their beauty, but also for their culinary skills with honey: ‘she may bake honey bread, know how to brew beer.’ Shortly afterwards, ‘smith Ilmarinen was born’ and a ‘bee rose up from the ground… O bee, lightweight man, bring mead on your wing, carry honey on your tongue, from six flowery tips, from seven grass tops, for steel things to be made, for iron to be wrought… spill honey on the earth.’ Apparently, the bee is essential to the forging of the world. Lemminkäinen’s mother resurrects her son using honey-based potions and spells, collected from the underworld with the assistance of a bee. Her concoction includes a drop of mead brought to anoint the weary one, to tend the ill-befallen… O bee, bird of ours, king of the forest flowers, go now to fetch some honey and to find some mead… to heal the ill.’ The resurrection ritual continues: So it (the bee) comes panting, travels doubled up, all its wings drenched in mead, its feathers in melted honey. She, Lemminkäinen’s mother, took the ointments and anointed the weary one, tended the ill-befallen; but no help came from them, no words came to the man. Lemminkäinen’s mother’s does not despair: Bee, my little bird, fly that other way, right over nine seas to an island on the main, a honey mainland, to Tuuri's new cabin, the Worshipful boundless one. There is pleasant honey there and good ointment there, which will suit sinews and be good for limbs. The bee obeyed: The honey was being cooked… in tiny cauldrons, in beautiful pans that would hold a thumb, fit a fingertip. The bee, slight man, got some of those ointments. Next, we learn: The Creator sang charms and the pure God talked, the lord anointed his brood inured by an evil power. Dip your wings in mead, and your feathers in melted honey. The bee laments its chances of completing the task and is told: You will get there easily, trip there handsomely, over the moon, underneath the sun, between heaven’s stars. For one day you will flutter to the moon’s brow-bones, for another you will whizz to the Great Bear’s shoulder blades, for a third you will soar up to the Seven Stars’ back; then ‘tis a mite of a way a tiny circuit to where God the holy lives to the blessed one’s dwellings. And so the bee flies to the ‘Almighty’s chamber’ and returns with the ointment that allows Lemminkäinen’s mother to successfully complete her son’s resurrection."

[@fnglert]

Absolute banger, this

[@infin8reactions]

For sure!!! 😁👌

[@jenni9866]

Thanks for the reaction! 🙂 This song is very interesting, I have totally loved it since they released it.

[@Tianda1111]

Masterpiece 🔥💪❤

[@elrikup1179]

In Finland small things matters like the bee in this one.

[@tuijakarttunen9164]

I love this song. Other really good ones by them: Shades of grey, Silent Waters and Silver Bride.

[@annukkas]

This is easily my favourite from Amorphis. Next excellent one is Death of a King. 🤘

[@jenni9866]

Here is Lee's reaction from two years ago 😄: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mJjTeK2Zgc-jnM0

[@annukkas]

@@jenni9866 Oh, didn't remember that. Thanks. 😊

[@annukkas]

Well, Wrong Direction then. 😅

[@marinaa.6140]

Just great💪♥️!

[@samilaine3366]

You should do Amorphis winter’s sleep its epic masterpiece

[@tonyv.8781]

At the end of man, nature will flourish.

[@Finkele1]

At least finnish "religion" held bees to place where they should be. Most of ppl calls that mythology but every religion is mythology in the end.

[@jannepitkakangas3603]

Please check out the Alone the Oulu show.

[@bazkeen]

Do like some Amorphis. Tomi Koivusaari's growls are epic. Tomi Joutsen is the clean vocalist 🤘🏻🔥🤘🏻🔥🤘🏻🔥

[@ApocalypseRider]

Tomi Joutsen does all the vocals. Koivusaari was vocalist in 90's, but is guitarist now

[@OVETMUSIC]

@@ApocalypseRider That’s right. Though Koivusaari does backing growls live nowadays but it’s all Joutsen on albums

[@revylokesh1783]

@@OVETMUSIC I just saw them live a couple days ago, and Koivusaari's occasional backing growls still sound fantastic. They absolutely killed it live!