Home - award-winning short film about climate change in Greenland.

[@prasantabarman9710]

Arctic friend , I again take up my pen . I am a retired professor of Sanskrit language and literature . Greenlandic is far different from Sanskrit . It is an incorporating language where we come across sentence-words . As a student I found an example illustrating it ...Aulisariartorasuarpok meaning he hastens to go fishing . This is something new and interesting . Out of eagerness I collected a grammar of Greenlandic...A grammar of the west Greenlandic language by Schultz-Lorentzen . But it was too hard and too brief . Dr Robert Petersen of Ilusimatusarfik , Nuuk wrote me something on the situation of the study of Greenlandic . Let us come to the point . In our Sanskrit literature there is a saying.... mother and motherland are both superior even to heaven . Your video entitled Home is a magnificent work . I think the word indicates the ancestral home , the home of the forefathers which is the arctic paradise or Greenland . I found this short film to be very informative , interesting and enlightening for us . It is the best type of a documentary film within a short compass of 8 minutes only . You started your fine narration with the settlement of the land by the Eskimos who were subsequently joined by the Vikings from Scandinavia . You also expressed your expectation from the coming generation . You are indeed one of the great and noble souls of the arctic paradise . Best wishes and regards from India .

[@inukjorgensen]

Qujanakulooq, meaning big thanks :-) Very humbled by you kind words.

[@prasantabarman9710]

@@inukjorgensen Arctic friend , I am extremely grateful to you . Thank you so much . I am a retired professor of Sanskrit language and literature . Now I am 70 years old . Prasanta Barman India .

[@kunstnersjael]

May I join you!? I have wondered how many words we inuit have kept from our ancestral home in Asia, and as a lover of indian movies, I have found a few similarities (being a visual artist, not at all educated in languages, and don't even speak greenlandic, only know a few sentences and a bit more greenlandic words) Here comes: Sasuma in hindi, means mother-in-law, and in Greenland we sometimes call our waterdwelling spirit, Mother of the Sea, that resides underwater, ruling over the waterliving animals, for Saasuma, meaning she-down-there (or something in that direction) Navarana, in Hindi, is a goddess, and in Greenland it is a female, personal name. In Greenland noone remembers the meaning of this name anymore. The worldfamous researcher Knud Rasmussen, writes of his informants, about the perception of the soul, that it is divided into lots of small souls that resides in every joint. I have made an illustraton of that (for a book on Knud Rasmussens texts) and when the illustration was exhibited in Paris, many years ago, a danish psychologist came to me, and asked if I had been to Nepal or Tibet? Because they have the same belief! I was bafled, but haven't gone there, or to India, yet, and didn't know of this coincidence, but would love to learn more... I think I found some more similar words, but can't remember them without my notes, but: I hope you have enjoyed my few words, dear Prasanta Barmanji.

[@prasantabarman9710]

@@kunstnersjael ,Dear Madam , I am very glad to be acquainted with you . You are a visual artist . Still you are interested in many topics . Apart from Greenland , you show curiosity about the cultures of other countries . In our Sanskrit literature , there is an oft-quoted maxim that says .... The entire earth appears to be a family to a person whose mind is broadened . In the present age of speedy internet , the universe has become so small as to be easily placed on our palm . The connection between the peoples of different countries is now an easy matter . I am pleased that you have expressed your desire to know about many countries such as Nepal ,Tibet etc . It delights me immensely to note your attraction for Indian movie . I am astonoshed that being a Greenlander you have been able to pick up a few Hindi words and to find out their resemlance with Greenlandic words . Hindi Sasuma is a compound word composed of two constituent words that have their origin in Sanskrit . Sanskrit is our ancient language which is the fountain of most languages of North India . Sanskrit is not an isolated language , but it is cognate with many languages of Europe . Sanskrit and Sanskrit-derived languages of the Indian subcontinent and the cognate languages of Europe are all grouped together as Indo-European languages which are supposed to be originated from a prehistoric parent speech . Today many Sanskrit words have crept into English and then they have spread into other European languages . A few examples can be cited .......... Guru - spiritual teacher , Puja - worship , Mantra - a set of sacred words uttered while giving offerings to some deity , Ahimsa - non-violence , Karuna - compassion , Maitri - amity , Raja. - king , Yoga. - our indegenous system of physical exercise for body and mind , Bhagawan -. god etc . etc . I have written a lot . I think , you do not feel monotonous . I hope , you would enjoy these words typed by a man living at a great distance in torrid zone . With best wishes and kind regards . Prasanta Barman Retd . Professor of Sanskrit West Bengal , India .

[@kunstnersjael]

@@prasantabarman9710 Dear Sir, I am equally glad to learn from you, both your profession and your culture, and yes, we in the western culture (I am half greenlandic, half danish/scandinavian) living in Denmark, have adopted much from your rich and varied cultures, and I have great pleasure of the simple westernized yoga, and yes, we often use the word karma, but should be more occupied with dharma...It is not only the indian movies that attracts me, but this is where I learn a little hindi, and try to figure out some of the cultural background of indian culture (of course I have read a little, but not yet your fine vedic/sanskriti literature, only read excerpts in a few texts...) It is very interesting to see the beautiful sanskrit language and find the similar words in my danish language, not only in english, for instance many numbers are the same, the way one say nai (no) is the same as in danish, spelled "nej". And when one compare with our old norse language, the similarity is even more obvious. Our old norse deities can be seen as developped from indoeuropean gods too. - How I wish to have known more of language to be able to meet your conversation of a higher level! Thanks for taking time to write back! I only see the comparisons and roots of a few words now and then when consulting dictionairies... By the way, I have had a short contact with Dr. Robert Petersen too, a very fine man. One of our finest researchers in Greenland. And Schultz Lorentzen was the principal of my primary school in Qaqortoq in the 'seventies, the town in this present video, and thus the director of my teacher-parents, a small world, and even smaller with the modern internet. In fact, even though I am not well travelled in the physical world, I "travel" many times a week, through the internet, and often to India! And the music that most often accompany my creative working proces is indian. Both carnatic, hindustani and modern popular genres of all kinds (in fact, right now, I hear this: Raag Patdeep by Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia) I have one other contact to a young bengali lady, whom I met on my tiny island, Aeroe, Denmark...she is a skilled aeroplane engineer for Boeing. I think she is an east bengali. Torrid zone: I read about it last year, many people died from the unusual heat, up to 52 C, roads melting, shoes melting etc. and felt very sorry. Yes, I am interested in many topics, being awfully curious, and often using that optained research and knowledge in my art...sometimes I have drawn indian classical dancers, Parvati, Shiva. And indian yogis meditating. and currently working on a series of works, where a constant motive is a meditating person, in padmasana...that series head motive is our common ancestry, the hominin family... Now I have written much, hope not too much. Best wishes and kind regards Naja Abelsen Fine Artist Ærø/Aeroe, Denmark

[@JustinSmith28]

This was amazing! The videography and the narration were perfect. Thank you for this work of art.

[@inukjorgensen]

Thanx for the lovely comment.

[@MissouriBengal]

This was a great documentary! This is great for ecological study!

[@vigobarcelona]

As a Spaniard I am completely mesmerized both by the incredible natural beauty and by the fact that anybody can survive year round in such harsh environment: nothing in my culture, no plant. no seed, no housing, etc, would survive a full autumn, let alone a winter. We would all die of depression before dying of hunger or cold

[@inukjorgensen]

Hahaha. Good one. I guess I feel the same way about the warmth of Southern Europe ;-)

[@vigobarcelona]

@@inukjorgensen I actually live in Galicia. You will actually be surprised how similar it is in the summer to your land, but how different in winter, since never really gets above 25 in summer or below 10 in winter. Not a great video, but so you can see kzbin.info/www/bejne/n5XblHeDm7iqqdE&ab_channel=ConcellodeCangasOficial

[@pass9895]

Beutiful video with a very important message, thanks

[@martaloewenstein2444]

Fantastic. This kind of feeling that tells you belong to the stones, the grass, the see and the ice you feel just there. I'll bem back the sooner possible.

[@inukjorgensen]

Thank you.

[@peterraskin3865]

Beautiful! Well done, thanks!

[@inukjorgensen]

Thanks for the comment. Happy you like it.

[@henrietteberthelsen1169]

nuanneq....qujanaq sanaannut .....nalunaaarut pingaarutilik kusanartumik sanasimavat

[@inukjorgensen]

Tak for de fine ord. Qujanaq :-)

[@NEGATIFFILM]

Great film

[@Dstew57A]

Natural climate change...and nothing man can do about it....keeping the earth clean is a goal but is different than climate change

[@deeptiramchandani9371]

Nice

[@kakkak89]

Torrak! Kusanaq!

[@inukjorgensen]

Qujanaq!

[@kattak74]

Smukt

[@inukjorgensen]

Tak

[@mousumidas5218]

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