Mari Boine - Gula Gula (Hear the voices of the foremothers) by Jan Helmer Olsen

Mari Boine - Gula Gula - Hear the voices of the foremothers
Album: Gula Gula, 1989
Music& lyrics Mari Boine
Vocal& drum: Mari Boine
Guitar: Roger Ludvigsen
Quena: Carlos Zamata Quispe
Claypot: Unni Shael Damslora
Drone Drum: Ale Møller
Producer: Tellef Kvifte
Publisher: Sony ATV Sweden
Video: Jan Helmer Olsen
Portrait photo: Gro A. Stokke
This video of the legendary song “Gula Gula” features beautiful landscapes of Sápmi in the Nothern part of Norway. The footage was captured by Jan Helmer Olsen in an invitation to take you to discover the beauty of Sámiland and its Indigenous culture.
The music and the unique voice of Mari Boine reflect the power and the silence of nature.
Gula Gula means Hear the voices of the foremothers, a song written in the Sámi language over 30 years ago, as a roar to bring awareness to preserve our Mother Earth.
More than ever, we need to listen to the ancient wisdom of the Indigenous world.
LYRICS
GULA GULA
Gula gula
nieida
gánda
Gula máttut dál du čurvot
manin attát eatnama duolvat
mirkkoduvvot
guoriduvvot
Gula jiena
nieida
gánda
Gula máttaráhkuid jiena
Eana lea min buohkaid eadni
Su jos soardit ieža jápmit
Letgo diktán iežat báidnot
leatgo iešge mielde gilvvus
Gula máttut dál dus jerret
itgo don muitte gos don vulget
Dus leat oappát
dus leat vielljat
Lulli-Ámeriihkka arvevuvddiin
Ruonaeatnama geađgerittuin
Itgo don muitte gos don vulget
Gula gula
nieida
gánda
Gula máttut dál du čurvot
manin attát eatnama duolvat
mirkkoduvvot
guoriduvvot
Gula jiena
nieida
gánda
gula máttaráhkuid jiena
Eana lea min buohkaid eadni
Su jos soardit ieža jápmit
HEAR THE VOICES OF THE FOREMOTHERS
Gula brother
Gula sister
Hear the voices of our foremothers
Why have you defiled the earth
Poisoned
depleted
Listen brother
Listen sister
Hear the song of our ancestors
Eatnan, our mother, is Earth
If we kill her
we also die
Did you get snared in the fiction
That symbiosis is competition
Hear our forefathers’ question
Do you know where you are from
You have brothers
You have sisters
in the Amazonian rainforests
on the windswept cliffs of Greenland
Do you remember where you come from
Translated to English by Julie Whitehorn.

[@WilFreeD68]

Sending all my love and support to my Sami Brothers and Sisters. I pray for Reindeers to stay safe on the land of your ancestors. Blessings from France 🙏💎 Merci Mari Boine for your presence on Mother Earth 🔵

[@borge1020]

Thank you, i am so proud about it

[@danielakesselring7683]

My homelandis in Switzerland....but your voice and your Song touches my shamanic heart 💓.....💝many thanks for your light 🕯

[@irinutsya]

Как Матушка Земля! Вся боль, и радость, и любовь!!!

[@jeannettebarriam2465]

Que belleza Mari!!! Que intensa y profunda relacion con la vida, con la madre Tierra! Desde la Isla de Chiloe, Chile, al otro lado del mundo te abrazo y agradezco tu cantar.. Tu cultura

[@user-pi4pi1xw2i]

فهم اللغة لم يكن شرطا للتعبير عن الاصالة والبداوة عند معظم شعوب الأرض. فصورة البداوة التي امتدت لآلاف السنين كانت تقريباً متشابهة في كل مكان. و بدأت في التراجع منذ قرن أو قرنين فقط. و السيدة الفاضلة ماري بوين بغنائها الأصيل، جعلتني أرى حياة الصغر في بوادي شمال افريقيا وحياة اجدادي. وهكذا يغني المطرب الأمازيغي إيدير، .تحياتي لكل بسطاء العالم.

[@corialeucasanovas]

Gracias., saludos ❤

[@Onionbaron]

Universal language...

[@inlakesh555]

Authentic ancient living nomadic culture... reaches deep

[@newdawnrecordings]

Music for the soul ☀️ thank you

[@spg1674]

Epic song and epic video too...Am I mistaken, or are all those reindeer performing murmurations! Wow!❤❤❤

[@leylabakurska2022]

Our love to Saamers from Ukraine 🙏🏻🌸

[@shaman-music2014]

🔥🔥🔥

[@silla-je9od]

Indeed.

[@ismailkaralar199]

Hepimiz misafiriz ....

[@corialeucasanovas]

Sublime!! Thanks 🙏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🌹

[@StigMhlumsveen]

Nice

[@D6hK24Ai]

Upea!

[@Sjobom7715]

❤️💫🌟🌟👏💫

[@witch8610]

So deep

[@Aniltonmoccio]

Só fico imaginando como alguém consegue viver em um lugar tão frio.

[@aylaalto3746]

Well. It is a choice of the Strong Spirit they posess.🤗

[@Aniltonmoccio]

@@aylaalto3746 True.

[@heatherlunzman3921]

When the raindeer become one.

[@bilionairevibes1264]

Tresure

[@chrissyemert8781]

Was this joik borrowed by Wardruna for "voluspa"? The likeness is uncanny.

[@cheerfulturtlegirl]

I definitely support conservation, but the earth is not our mother. We are created by the LORD God of the Bible, and Jesus Christ is the only way for us to be saved from our sins. If an artist is not given credit for their hard work and masterpiece, we as people can see a grievous wrong has been committed. How much more when we do not give proper glory to Father God for His creation by His Word Jesus Christ and His Holy Spirit? We are not made to worship the creation. We are made to be reconciled with our loving and holy Creator God and worship only Him. The truth is only God is worthy of worship. I love Sami culture and people. I simply want to share the hope made available through the blood of Jesus Christ for all people of this world.

[@lawrenceebersole9765]

The earth was here long before any ideas of gods

[@dexterlacroy4132]

@@lawrenceebersole9765 was here...but created by who...?

[@Streinaaa]

do you guys know how much Christianity has destroyed.

[@sawtoothiandi]

false dichotomy

[@sawtoothiandi]

the blood of christ runs through the sap of mother earths tallest trees, no two things are exclusive mutually, all is all