A few weeks ago I was talking about the theory of the flooding of the Sahara with friends and when a friend posited that the Younger Dryas Impact could have potentially caused a tsunami that would explain the water striations seen in Mauritania when I remembered the Finnic national epoch, the Kalevala, and it's creation myth. Unlike a lot of creation myths (which are usually about a near-extinction event [from one man and one woman who were "exiled from paradise" begun a new world] or flood myths [first there was nothing but darkness and water, then came the rest] or a combination thereof) the Finnic creation myth is a bit different as it revolves around a cataclysmic, ground shaking, all burning egg being laid. Specifically speaking seven of them, with six of eggs gold and one of iron. Below I'll present a little backstory about the Finns and Finland, our national epic and our unique language and then the thoughts that emerged in the discussion, plus some cursory criticism and thoughts.

Some backstory about the Finns

The area currently known as Finland has been settled by the Finns from roughly 11 000 years ago, which is when we start seeing anthropogenic signs of habitation in the south east of Finland, but some cave findings can be dated back as far as 120 000 years. Finnic peoples predate current Saxon and Nordic cultures of Norway, Sweden & Denmark by about 3 000 years in the area, as the rest of the Nordics were inhabited by Germanic tribes around 8 000 BC. Finnish didn't have a system of writing spoken Finnish until the 14th century AD and before that history was passed in oral tradition by local wise-men (a Tietäjä, which I will elaborate further below) or information was recorded in other systems of writing (mainly in Latin and Swedish). Because Finnish shares practically nothing with these languages, as it is of its own root of Uralic languages called the Fenno-Ugric languages, most of written proto-Finnic can mostly be found in loan words in Germanic languages or recorded verbatim in these two languages in the area. Because the clergy wanted Finns to move to Swedish and Latin in spoken language up until the 16th century, much of Finnish oral tradition from the west coast of Finland was purged throughout history as heresy or heretical information, but in the periphery of Finland oral tradition and prehistoric Finnish religion persisted as an active tradition until the late 1950's.

Some backstory to the Kalevala.

The Kalevala was a national epic written in the 1800's by our National Poet, Elias Lönnrot, who visited the Viena Karelia region of Finland (very much in the aforementioned periphery of Finnish native lands, in current day Russia since WW2) and recorded and compiled as much oral tradition from local wise men/healers called Tietäjä, roughly translated as the Knowers, who specialized in memorized spoken knowledge. Lönnrot functioned both as the sole person collecting the spoken word and as the sole editor, and he tried to apocrypha as much heterodoxical information from his collected works as possible and to create a succinct collection of compatible poems as possible. So while the singular stories are collected from living and practicing Tietäjä from the area, we can't really tell what information was cut and what stories were lost to time in the creation of the Kalevala. Nevertheless, the information inside the books is considered to be largely unaltered recorded poems from people dedicated to the craft of preserving information.

Now, the Kalevala tells the tale of the Maiden of Ether and the Bluebill. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5186/5186-h/5186-h.htm#chap01

https://i.imgur.com/ELrLyKN.png

The Maiden is pregnant with Väinämöinen, the demihuman Tietäjä older than time who features as the protagonist of the rest of the epic (who is used as both a personification for all Finnish people and as an actual person of legend, depending on the poem), and the Maiden of Ether is laying in the sea. A bluebill duck notices the knee of the Maiden of Ether and lays six eggs of gold and a single egg of iron on the knee of the maiden. Fire and turmoil follow, seven eggs fall into the ocean's deep waters and from the sea, land transforms into existence.

Humanity (Väinämöinen) emerges some time later after the great transformation of the land and for Väinämöinen's first heroic task, he needs to unearth hidden information from inside the earth, from the buried giant Antero Vipunen.

Some linguistic background

Thirdly our last bit of background information, despite the incredibly close linguistic proximity with both Swedish and Latin for many millennia, Finnish and many other Finno-Ugric and Baltic languages still use the proto-finnic word Linnunrata or "The Bird's Path" to describe the milky way. Similarly, the term Lintukoto or "The Bird's Home" is a proto-finnic word to describe where the land meets the firmament, i.e. the horizon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_names_for_the_Milky_Way#Birds'_Path

The terms Bird's Path can even be found in languages as far east as Kazakhstan, which has had close interactions with Finnic tribes since time immemorial (mainly from enslaving Finnic people, but positive interactions as well).

The conclusion:

What immediately sparks to my mind is that from the Bird's path (skies above) six golden eggs (smaller meteors that burned in the atmosphere) and one egg of iron (a meteorite) were laid. The Iron Egg caused massive fires, earthquakes and emergence of land from the sea. After some time, Väinämöinen (humanity) tries to rediscover lost knowledge from inside the earth (which implies the existence of superior pre-cataclysmic knowledge).

https://i.imgur.com/qmbxC0P.png

Because it is widely recognized that Finland has been inhabited by people with a strong oral history since roughly the time that the Younger Dryas Impact would have occurred and because the language still to this day uses phrases and figures of speech that enforces the terminology described by the creation myth, I posit that the Kalevala is an eyewitness testimony of the cataclysmic impact.