Mountain Sampo description and photo - Russia - Karelia: Kondopozhsky district (Topic)

Mount Sampo description and photos - Russia - Karelia: Kondopozhsky district. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photos and a map showing the nearest significant objects.

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Mount Sampo is located 37 km from the city of Petrozavodsk, on the territory of the Kondopoga region. You can get to it by personal transport or together with an excursion group; buses moving along the route to Marcial Waters, Konchezero and Spasskaya Bay do not stop at Sampo.

In Karelian-Finnish mythology, Sampo takes the place of a unique miracle object that has magical powers and is a source of happiness, abundance and well-being. Usually it is presented in the form of a mill.

According to the legends of the runes, Sampo was forged by Ilmarinen as a ransom for a wedding for the daughter of the old woman Louha, the mistress of Pohjola, to whom Ilmarinen wooed. Sampo, thanks to his magical power, can grind so much money, salt and bread that it will not only be enough for food and supplies, but also to the device of feasts. The roof of the mill symbolizes a heavenly dome, dotted with numerous stars, revolving around the center of its axis - the support on which the whole world rests.

Based on the world famous Karelian-Finnish epic "Kalevala" on Mount Sampo, the eponymous film "Sampo". The central plot of the epic is the abduction of Sampo from Pohjela: Vainamoinen goes to Pohjala with Ilmarinen and Lemminkainen, lulls the inhabitants and takes Sampo out from under the mountain. While he is taking Sampo away in a boat, Pohjela's mistress wakes up and catches up with the kidnappers.

During their struggle, Sampo is inadvertently broken, and its fragments sink into the sea, but later part of the fragments of the fairy mill were carried by waves to the Kalevala coast. Wise Vainemeinen caught them and buried them in the ground. Since that time, happiness and contentment have settled in Karelia forever, and Sampo Mountain is considered a place of power and fulfillment of the most cherished desires. A tree of wishes grows on the mountain - an ancient and mighty pine tree, having made a wish on it you need to hang a piece of your clothes.

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