When I was young, I started with African history and that was and still is so impressive....Asia, Europe and so on. Last few years Scandinavian. Why this order? Perhaps Egypt and pyramids? Who knows. Asian religions and art? Scandinavia and vikings? Ancient sagas of Norway and Island? You know, we had giants and a lot of the Gods in here...yep. So loooong time ago. And kings and queens. The map seemed whole different...people lived with, near and about nature. They had to respect that and its Gods. If you took something you had to give something in return. Today they call it paganism. Christianity and hundreds of years conversion to Christianity made a lot of work to made us to forget and destroy all that old knowledge. But it hasn`t been forgotten...completely. A lot is gone, but you can still see some features about it, for example in our calender, art, songs, sayings, names, habits...in everything. In everyday life. How many knows that Ahti and Tapio were name of Gods? Nowadays they use those like any kind of men´s names. Or how many remember the original genesis of the world (by Kalevala)? That story is as old as bible. Unless even older.
As interesting is the art, handicraft, real handmade items and so on, made today. I mean those unique everyday items. Made in /at home for all of us. Like xmas decorations, fabrics and so on. Summer is so strong and full of colors in here.