STATE OF NATURE
The state of nature existed for the early inhabitants of the land between the Gulf of Finland and the Bothnian Sea, and along the shore of the Lake Ladoga, freshwater lakes, moss bogs, creeks, and rivers all the way north to the White Sea. Some individual people were in tune with their inner intuitive spiritual being, living among the precious resources of the natural environment and the starlit night skies. We cannot even begin to imagine the interactions that a human spirit— the mind and soul— go through when its life is entirely dependent on the provisions that the natural environment provides. People that lived their lives surrounded by the natural living environment, interacting with the life that was so rich everywhere during the spring, summer, and autumn season that is what shaped their spirits and personalities. God-given life presented with the natural environment; they were the recipients of that life, and they were conscious of it. June is the beginning of summer in the southern parts of the Nordic countries. It was also hard work at times; shelters were constructed for health reasons and
protection. Food had to be gathered, fished, and hunted for provision. Wild berries had to forage for nutritional needs, and water was manually carried for households. Clothing and footwear were repaired, and new items were made. Until the time when the migrating birdlife starts to return south, year after year, return south for the warm summer daylight. Pioneers most experienced, well prepared, only the brave among them would dare to stay through the Nordic winters, which could be under snow and ice for six months (some regional variations), November to May. During the cold dark winters, wild game animals are tracked and hunted, moose and deer. Fire is essential to stay healthy and alive in the Nordic cold winters. During the Nordic winter, the environment is often dead still and quiet, not a sound heard. A winter environment covered with snow insulating and trapping any sounds from the pine trees. Blue haze appears around mid-morning with no sunrise during the day, and the darkness returns at mid-afternoon. Six hours of grey blue haze daylight is a sign of the Nordic midwinter solstice. The season changes, and the daylight hours go closer to midnight, the winter snow and ice soon melt away as the migrating birds arrive from their South Europe and African winter escape. The green vegetation starts to thrive, and soon the wild berries start to flower, giving birth to wild strawberries, bilberries, lingonberries, thorn-buck berries, and cloudberries. The environment is full of the sounds of singing bird calls and songs. Game animals such as reindeer, whitetail deer, brown bear, and the moose, they mate and give birth to their young; food is abundant during the three short months of the Nordic summer season.
Victor Leinonen. A Claim For A True Worldview (Kindle Locations 561-574).