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dabiconcordia · 4 months
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"He who once drunk of Nile water will forever yearn to be by the Nile again." — Mika Waltari
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"Sinuhe, ystäväni, me synnyimme outoon aikaan. Kaikki liikkuu ja muuttaa muotoaan, niinkuin savi savenvalajan levyllä. Vaatteet muuttuvat, sanat ja tavat muuttuvat eivätkä ihmiset enää usko jumaliin, vaikka pelkäävätkin heitä. Sinuhe, ystäväni, ehkä synnyimme elämään maailman päivänlaskun aikaa, sillä maailma on jo vanha, kun tuhat ja kaksituhatta vuotta on kulunut pyramidien rakentamisesta. Kun ajattelen sitä, tahtoisin kallistaa pääni käsivarsieni varaan ja itkeä kuin lapsi." -
“Sinuhe, my friend, we are born into strange times. Everything is shapeshifting – like clay on a potter’s wheel. Clothings are changing, words, customs are changing, and people no longer believe in the gods – though they still fear them. Sinuhe, my friend, perhaps we were born in time for the sunset of the World, for the World is already old, as one thousand years and two thousands more have passed since the construction of the pyramids. When I think of that, I want to bury my head in my hands and cry like a child.”
Mika Waltari : Sinuhe egyptiläinen
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“There is no difference between one man and another, for all are born naked into the world. A man cannot be measured by the colour of his skin, or by his speech, or by his clothes and jewels, but only by his heart.”
— Mika Waltari, The Egyptian, 1945
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yokyopeli · 17 days
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Nainen on valttia/ Kvinnan är trumf (1944)[11.3.2024] Written by Mika Waltari Directed by Ansa Ikonen
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toxictaicho · 4 days
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Setnefer
watercolour, ink and marker
I bet Mayuri would be good friend with embalmers.
He would keep creepy cat breeds like sphynx, oriental shorthair, devon rex, lykoi etc. (these didn't exist then, but he would create them)
He would ruin your life.
I love painting toxic people with toxic paints :3
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immoren · 5 months
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not-souleaterpost · 13 days
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Ok last one, especially when I havent even read Dune (just saw the superior lynch movie😏)
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dijeh · 24 days
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The Dark Angel, Mika Waltari
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theiniana · 1 month
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Honestly technological innovation should never be as slow as it is. There was nothing we could do to get Mika Waltari, author of a book about an immortal guy who collects cool rocks and talks to a spiritual waifu, into Tumblr
There was also nothing we could do to cause fresh Tumblr discourse about another book where a French man in his 30s falls in love with an 18 year old Greek girl
Linear time is a travesty
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porttohuume · 1 year
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Nuori Sinuhe egyptiläinen todellakin oli vaan sillee "en ole kuten muut tytöt"
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soulsanitarium · 1 year
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Finland 🇫🇮 🎥 ”Noita palaa elämään” The Witch (actually Resurrection of the witch) Directed by R.af Hällström 1952.
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🎭The film is based on the play of Mika Waltari (1945) who studied the subject also in the other novels. Waltari is one of the most loved writers in Finland. According to Rajala, Waltari got the idea for the play from a newspaper article about a grave found in Denmark.
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I believe this bog body may have been the so-called Elling -woman. He had read a book about 🇳🇴 witchprocesses & also studied the subject with limited scientific data in Helsinki Uni. 🧟‍♀️ He referred in to Malleus Maleficarum in the play as well as psychoanalysis and behavioral sciences.
Waltari studied theology when he was young and he remained as a philosophical thinker in almost all of his works. But he struggled also with his mental health and had a huge breakdown just before writing his masterpiece Sinuhe the Egyptian and soon after that, this play. So he recovered well but life was not easy for him or his family.
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🪦Synopsis: The archaeologist couple, the painter and owner of the mansion, and his son try to find an explanation for the riddle of the girl who came to the manor and who has lost her memory. At the same time, the ancient grave of the witch's in the marsh has been excavated. The villagers fear that the witch who was executed in ancient times have now returned to revenge.
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😕Unfortunately, at the suggestion of one of the Theater directors, writer agreed to change the end of the finished play to a different ending. He had done this before and he probably was also thinking that the play would have a short life, if he did not listen the advice. IIWW was just over and the crowd wanted something light, just like we have seen after the Covid-time.
In the original play, the witch was buried in the swamp and returned to retaliate, and then disappeared. But the film also has this altered ending, which turns it into a comedy. Everything has been just a dream and a misunderstanding. Supernatural and witchcraft was too much after the war and news about holocaust.
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✉️Waltari was also familiar with psychoanalytic literature. He wrote to his friend: “Finally I have a religion, I believe that God and Satan, heaven and hell, are in the heart of every human being, from which he has projected them into the outside world.”
Quote: Birgit, the witch in the play says to the scientist Hannu: ”You wanted to get to know the witches and the devils, but you found yourself.” This is the main idea of the play. 😈
💸The film was sold to Germany and the U. S., but ended up on the sleazy theaters, as a Scandinavian erotica. It has also been exploited to B-movie ”Naked witch”.
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Waltari’s play has not been translated to English, but I recommend his “Sinuhe the Egyptian” (mummy-theme can be seen also in current). The Hollywood version of the Sinuhe is pretty bad.
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"I begin this book in the third year of my exile on the shores of the Eastern Sea, whence ships put out for the land of Punt, near the desert, near those hills from which stone was quarried to build the statues of former kings. I write it because wine is bitter to my tongue, because I have lost my pleasure in women, and because neither gardens nor fish pools delight me any more. I have driven away the singers, and the sound of pipes and strings is torment to my ear. Therefore, I write this, I, Sinuhe, who make no use of my wealth, my golden cups, my ebony, ivory, and myrrh.
They have not been taken from me. Slaves still fear my rod; guards bow their heads and stretch out their hands at knee level before me. But bounds have been set to my walking, and no ships can put in through the surf of these shores; never again shall I smell the smell of black earth on a night in spring.
My name was once inscribed in Pharaoh’s golden book, and I dwelt at his right hand. My words outweighed those of the mighty in the land of Kem; nobles sent me gifts, and chains of gold were hung about, my neck. I possessed all that a man can desire, but like a man I desired more — there–fore, I am what I am. I was driven from Thebes in the sixth year of the reign of Pharaoh Horemheb, to be beaten to death like a cur if I returned — to be crushed like a frog between the stones if I took one step beyond the area prescribed for my dwelling place. This is by command of the King, of Pharaoh who was once my friend.
But before I begin my book I will let my heart cry out in lamentation, for so an exile’s heart must cry when it is black with sorrow.
He who has once drunk of Nile water will forever yearn to be by the Kile again; his thirst cannot be quenched by the waters of any other land.
I would exchange my cup for an earthenware mug if my feet might once more tread the soft dust in the land of Kem. I would give my linen clothes for the skins of a slave if once more I might hear the reeds of the river rustling in the spring wind."
— Mika Waltari, The Egyptian, 1945
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uuniluuta · 1 year
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Hänen [Iiri Salmian] silmänsä olivat rohkeat ja kirkkaat. Pienet, sirot rinnat kaartuivat kauniisti ohuen puvun alla. Niistä voi kai mainita ohimennen, koska hän näytti ne tanssiessaankin jotakuinkin paljaina. Muuten tämä kyllä on puhdashenkinen kirja.
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sparklingwateronly · 8 days
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this was written by sinuhe, the egyptian, who lived alone all the days in his life.
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