Marjatta / 玛丽雅达
Marjatta / 玛丽雅达
Marjatta
玛丽雅达
ink on rice paper, 76x125cm
纸本水墨, 2021
Marjatta, a chaste maiden who becomes pregnant from a lingonberry. Her son is the new King of Kalevala. The old hero Väinämöinen is determined to drive away mother and son. After knowing that everyone thought they were innocent, he gets very angry and leaves Kalevala. This is a metaphor for the conversion of the original polytheistic faith of the Finnish people to Christianity. The child disappears after born. Marjatta looks for him and finds him in the wetlands. The text in the painting is the verses of the stars and the moon answering her when she is asking them where is her son.
《卡勒瓦拉》又名《英雄国》。
圣处女玛丽雅达意外地吃了野莓便诞下了卡累利阿王。老英雄万奈摩宁立意要赶走母子。后来得知大家都认为他们无罪，便愤然离开了卡勒瓦拉国。这隐喻芬兰人民原有的多神教信仰向基督教转变。小英雄一生下来便躲起妈妈的猫猫来。图中的文字是玛丽雅达寻找卡累利阿王的时候，星星月亮回答她的诗句。
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