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Midsummer
Written for Virtual Finland by Joe Brady
Photo: Matti Kolho/Finnish Tourist Board
Lighting a bonfire is the high point of Midsummer night.
Midsummer is surely the most harmonious
of Finland's public holidays. Christmas is fine, too, of course,
even with its commercial overkill. May Day is the most boisterous
and boozy of all them all, but Midsummer brings out the best
in everyone. Swedish speakers, who make up six per cent of Finland's population, call the day midsommar, easy for anglophones, while Finnish speakers refer to it as Juhannus, the Christian calendar's Feast of St John the Baptist.
The religious factor is hardly foremost, yet something metaphysical stirs inside the thousands of Finns who head for lakeside cabin or forest glade or parental home to commune with nature on Midsummer Eve and on into the luminous night. Even those left behind in town enjoy the peace that descends on streets emptied of cars and kids and commotion
Photo: Matti Tirri
Midsummer fires are lit all over Finland, except in the Swedishspeaking areas along the coast, where a Midsummer pole is erected instead.
The Finnish Literature Society's splendidly
helpful cultural encyclopaedia of Finland, published in 1997,
gives us the historical background to the festival, prosaically
as follows: "The festival is celebrated on the Saturday
that falls between 20th June and 26th June. Many of the customs
associated with Midsummer's Day derive from the pre-Christian
and pan-European festival of light and fertility that marked
the summer solstice."
"The burning of the Midsummer kokko (bonfire), originally
a tradition linked, in the north and east of the country, with
beliefs concerning fertility, cleansing and the banishing of
evil spirits, has in the 20th century spread throughout Finland. It has become the central element in the programme of commercial
Midsummer festivities, along with music and dance. Homes are
decorated with flowers and birch branches. A Midsummer pole
reminiscent of an ornamental sailing mast is part of the Finland-Swedish tradition of southern Finland and Åland."
Sailing mast or fertility symbol, the Midsummer pole is closely akin to the maypole, known in the British Isles and other parts of Europe, around which people dance during May Day celebrations.
Juhannus is also Finland's Flag Day. According to the official
rules, flags are raised at six in the evening on Midsummer's
Eve and lowered at 21 hours on the evening of the following
day.
Updated June 2008
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