Hei All, I'm back home... Just arrived. Thanks for your replies! I try to answer them now.
Mikey! Ok, sounds cool, how did you like Kalevala? In english it's quite weird, old poetic Finnish is so hard to translate to english, it's nearly impossible to get the same expressions into it. (I've read some parts of the English version.) Haha, D&D had Mielikki in it? She's wife of Tapio, they are the gods of forest. Finnish gods always come as pairs, almost every time there's god and goddess for same thing. interesting thing is that Bear and Moose for example are also foest gods, but Tapio & Mielikki are the ones who sort of over watch everything in forest, Mielikki is the creator of bear btw, our band has a song about that, the creation of bear. Yes, Tolkien got a ton of influences from Finnish myths.
Hei Oi and Merc, shrooms you say? In shamanic tradition, yea, but normal peeps, no, just alcohol and food.
And there's a lot of fertility rites involved, most of those are not really practiced any more, but there's lot of knowledge about it. Just like most of all ancient tradition here.
Oh, not many pictures though, we forgot about using cameras, just took some pics of our dog etc.
K-bone, haha, yea, I'm sure of that! It's partially commercialized here, beer discounts and stuff just before midsummer. But it's not that bad as christmas is... Not even close.
Funny thing is, that these pagan holidays are still celebrated, the church has not killed all of it here. I guess the the tradition of certain things sits deep in people. Although most of them don't even know why we celebrate mid summer and to which god it's dedicated to... It's celebration of Ukko and the main things it aims, is to get good yield of crops, plenty of food, happy and wealthy year all in all. It's also very popular time for people to get married.
And christmas has over written the ancient midwinters party... About midwinter, I don't know so much about, the traditions I mean. One main thing is to get the spring to come soon, it's the party of light, sort of summoning the sun to light up the darkness of winter.
Anyway, I had nice time... It was quite peaceful, I drank a lot and ate a lot, we made old fashion "rosvopaisti" that's a primitive meat food thing. First burn a big fire, then dig a hole, put the meats in there, cover them with sand and stuff, and then burn fire on top of it for some hours. I went to sauna every night, I also swam too... Water was at +14 degrees, not very warm yet.
We didn't have our own kokko fire this year, but we watched neighbors light up theirs... Drinking was so much fun that I forgot about almost all spells...
I did give an offering to Ahti though, gave him some booze. Hehe. Ahti is god of waters and of all cretures who live in waters. O gave him an offering to have luck with fishing.
Ok, this is a long pot already, I'll drop back here, I want to read all the new topics.
Joulu = christmas/midwinter. Haha. 
). Thanks for sharing your customs; I love other cultures and I never learned about any traditions from your neck of the woods.
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One of our neighbors lights the fire with different means each year... Once it was fireworks, other time he used some explosive, once it was can of gasolene and what have you. 
