This website is dedicated with gratitude to:

Kaisu Mentu, 1921 - 1993 -- Finnish healer and psychic whose extraordinary clairvoyance into ancient Egypt was seminal;

and

Lempi Ikävalko, 1901 - 1994 -- Finnish author, poet and journalist, who was part of the lineage of the ancient wisdom, the language of the bards that is lost to the modern world, but of which the Kalevala (among other traditions) speaks. It is today the province of mythology and visionary experience.

Vilu mulle virttä virkkoi, sae saatteli runoja.
Virttä toista tuulet toivat, meren aaltoset ajoivat.
Linnut liitteli sanoja, puien latvat lausehia.
-- Kalevala, Runo I 33-35

["The cold recited me these poems, rains chaperoned its lays.
Other hymns the winds came bearing, drove the whitecaps of the oceans.
Birds came to join my words together, treetops carved these phrases."
-- translated from the Finnish by Ilkka Ikävalko]

 

Truth is a deep water,
whose volume the human mind
cannot parse by gazing.
-- from The Barred Breast, Lempi Ikävalko, 1939 

 

 

 [image: the Dordogne River, below the village of Domme, France. Photo by the author.]