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In the beginning -
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Earth's water was bound in minerals.
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Water is thought to have originated
from icy comets and meteors.
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ALL of this the ancient Finns
already knew.
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The national epic, Kalevala -
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describes how water
originated in the mountains:
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waters came down from the sky
and grew beneath the rocky surface.
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In the ice age, the northern
hemisphere was covered by ice.
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Movement of the ice carved out depths
and its weight left depressions -
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which would later form lakes.
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There are around 190,000 lakes
in Finland.
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TALE OF A LAKE
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The never-ending cycle of water
is the basis of all life.
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In Finnish mythology -
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Vellamo is the goddess of water
and Ahti the güardian of all waters.
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Forever reborn in
the bubbling spring water -
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is Ahti and Vellamo's daughter,
the tiny water spirit Ahitar.
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She appears in a mist -
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to watch over the water folk
and guard the waters and shores.
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The Arctic chars know
when Ahitar's birth is near -
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and rush to greet her
as the clouds of mist clear.
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Ahitar spends her early years
in the spring -
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raised by arctic chars.
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Soon she befriends all the different
plant and animal spirits.
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According to the tale, water
spirits grew up in the springs -
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and learned to take care of
the water folk.
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When the water spirits
were old enough -
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the winter sky was lit up by
northern lights in celebration.
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After the ice melts water can flow
freely, and it is time to move on -
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toward the lake.
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Nature knows something great
and joyous is about to happen:
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Ahitar, the tiny water spirit -
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begins her first journey
in the eternal cycle.
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AILL the animals and plants were known
to have their own guardian spirits -
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who looked after their own.
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Tapiotar was
the guardian spirit of birds.
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She waited in the open water -
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and greeted the whooper swans
arriving, trumpets blaring, -
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on the icy runway.
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Many Finnic people thought -
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the swan was their divine ancestor.
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They believed swans had been humans
before breaking down to birds.
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The European otter hunts
in a large area.
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Its territory can cover over
50 kilometers of waterways.
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It lives in the water
but also spends time on land.
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The otter is a solitary creature.
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Otters use their sensitive whiskers -
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to help track fish even in the
darkness of underwater ice.
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Otters are playful animals
that love to -
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slide from one ice hole to another
and downhill on their tummiles.
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The female looks after
the offspring by herself.
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The pups often stay with their mother
for over a year.
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Hillervo is the guardian spirit
of otters
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She sends her people to carry
the message forward:
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Ahitar is on her way to the lake.
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Amphibians frogs were the first
vertebrates to live on land -
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yet they still return to the water
to reproduce.
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Toads can hibernate underwater -
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since they can breathe through their
skin as well as with their lungs.
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Toads can live for over 50 years.
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Toad wrestling matches
commence in the spring -
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following the rules
of ancient Greek Olympics.
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Soon though it starts to look
more like freestyle wrestling.
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The winner is awarded
the fairest of all toads.
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There aren't enough brides
for everyone, though.
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The battle-worn toad must crawl back
to its solitary abode -
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and wait for a whole year before
spring and the next wrestling match.
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Come springtime, the warm sun and
the cold hard ice engage in battle.
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Every year the ice has to surrender.
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It then starts moving and forcing
its way through everything -
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until it softens and melts.
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The elk have spent the winter
together grazing in large herds.
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In the spring
they begin to make their way -
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towards new pastures
following their age-old routes.
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Even large waterways
cannot stop the elk.
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In Finnish folk tales, the elk
guardian spirit is called Laus.
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He tends to the elk and
breaks the herd into groups.
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After having spent
a long winter together -
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friends must finally part ways.
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Laus explains why some
must cross the water -
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while others stay behind.
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Sufficient food must be available
for everyone in the summer.
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Perch and roach swim upstream
to spawn.
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Not everyone makes it, and only
the strongest get to reproduce.
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Some continue on,
and others stay behind.
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Only the cycle of water
is never-ending.
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In many ancient tales,
the world is created from an egg.
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In Kalevala, the egg's lower half
becomes the earth -
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and the upper half becomes the sky.
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The yolk turns into the sun -
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the white transforms into the moon -
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all the coloured bits
become the stars -
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and the darker bits change
into clouds in the sky.
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From that same egg
our whole world was hatched -
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fish and birds were born too.
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From the tiny egg hatched
the brown trout fry -
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the miracle of new life.
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The water flows from the spring into
streams and rivers, toward the lake.
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One part of the water cycle
is about to end.
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As it flows, the water washes
dirt away and is cleansed itself -
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in rapids and stromg currents -
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grabbing some oxygen
and nutrients on the way.
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It is renewed.
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The fresh, oxygen-rich water
flows into the lake.
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Shrouded by mist,
Ahitar inspects her new home.
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When the first morning dawns -
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she sees how Pâivâtâr,
the mother of all living things -
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directs life--giving sunlight
onto the lake.
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From her golden threads
she weaves her beams oflight.
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The lake's ecosystems
are powered by the sun.
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ALL they need is just a few fractions
of daylight.
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The lake is an important part
of the cycle of water -
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which is why the water spirits -
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had to make their home here.
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People who lived close
to nature understood -
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that humans were a part of nature -
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and needed to respect
its delicate balance.
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The eldest of the perch guides Ahitar
and introduces the water folk to her.
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The perch spawrıs over
a long period of time -
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from May to as late as July.
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A large female perch can lay up
to 50,000 eggs.
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Right after spawning -
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the new generation
must be closely guarded.
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The northern pike has always been
an important fish for Finnish folk.
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The mysterious pike -
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was considered the king of fish.
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According to an epic poem of
its birth pikes came from the sky -
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and brought fire and music to people.
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People knew the pike's skull
was made up of a hundred bones -
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and each one was given a name
and meaning when casting spells.
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These days the skull bones are
used to calculate the pike's age.
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The black-throated loon
is a very timid bird.
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People believed the mysterious loon
was a messenger of the gods -
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and some even thought the dead
could assume the shape of the bird -
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and return to their families
and ask for food.
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Black-throated loons were thought
to keep evil spirits away -
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and so people would brush
their cows with loon feathers -
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to keep predators
from attacking the herd.
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No one knows why some birds
gather in flocks -
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and how their pecking order
is established.
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It's hard for a new member of the
flock to be elected as the leader.
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Birds are thought to have evolved -
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from small dinosaurs that lived
in the Jurassic period.
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The scales became feathers
to keep the dinosaur warm.
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When their upper limbs became
stronger and their bones hollow -
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the feather-covered creatures
took to the skies.
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Water birds have played a crucial
part in the lives of ancient Finns.
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Birds carried messages from gods -
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but were also
an important source of food.
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People welcomed returning migratory
birds after a food-scarce winter.
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Water birds appear in rock paintings
thousands of years old.
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The miraculous origin of the world -
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life hatched from an egg,
is repeated in the life of a bird.
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It takes a very little time
before the water bird chicks -
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are ready to leave the nest
after hatching.
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On land the chicks
would be easy prey.
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They are safer on water.
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They must, however, learn to respect
the water territories of other birds.
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It would be foolish to go near
a red-throated loon's home.
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It is said that the bear was born
where the moon lives -
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in the heart of day
on the Big Dipper's shoulder.
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From there,
it was lowered onto the Earth -
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in a golden cradle
hanging from a silver sling.
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White-tailed eagles wear five
different suits during their lives:
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four suits in their youth
and one for old age.
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In many stories,
the eagle acts as a messenger -
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and in Kalevala
İt rescues Vâinâmöinen -
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and helps other heroes as needed.
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Lake shores are a haven
for many insects.
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The metamorphosis, when they migrate
from water to land is fascinating.
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The dragonfly is a magical creature -
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that has lived on the earth for
hundreds of millions of years.
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It spends a great part ofits life
underwater -
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as a monstrous larva that feeds
on other underwater creatures.
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Mosguito eggs hatch in the water,
and they become swimming larvae.
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The larvae breathe
through the surface -
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using a thin tube that protrudes
from their rear end.
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Insects born in water need to be
reborn into a whole new world -
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with completely different laws
for life.
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These insects change from divers
into fliers.
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They become airborne in order to
reproduce and lay eggs.
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From the water, a new cycle of life
begins once again.
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Without insects
there would be no birds:
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they live side by side
in nature's delicate balance.
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Water striders have measured -
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the span of the lake manıy times -
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while others beneath the surface -
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such as polyps and moss animals
are left far behind.
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The beaver is known
as an ecosystem engineer -
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because its purpose in life
is to build.
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It makes its environment ideal for
the preservation of its own species -
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by building dams and creating a
fine nest inside a water enclosure.
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The dams can be several metres high
and tens of metres long.
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For rafting timber,
beavers also build channels -
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that can reach hundreds of metres
in length.
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When threatened, the beaver may stay
underwater for as long as 15 minutes.
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Its body functions slow down.
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This is made possible by a diving
reflex many mammals carry -
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as a legacy from a time when their
ancestors still lived in the water.
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A beaver family sometimes include
offsprings from the previous year.
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As many as ten beavers may live
together in the same nest.
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As autumn comes, Tapiotar,
the guardian spirit of birds -
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gathers her flocks and directs
them due south for the winter.
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It is time to bid a touching farewell
to the summer and its bustling life.
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One can also hear joy and eagerness
in the flocks' farewell calls.
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The water folk say goodbye -
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to a summer bright
and vibrant with life -
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seeking peace and guiet
as the nights get darker.
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They need not go far
from their home lake.
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They can seek shelter in the nooks
and crevices of the deep.
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According to ancient wisdom, the
birds' guardian spirits told them -
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when the time was right to migrate -
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and they also guided
the birds along the journey.
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Come spring, they would show the way
back north to the nesting grounds.
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The guardian spirits may acually be
the earth's magnetic fields.
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Birds can sense the lines of force
and navigate by them.
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In the autumn,
the brown trout leave the lakes -
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and swim upstream towards gravelly
patches where they can spawn.
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They travel from lakes
far along the rivers -
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to where they have spawned
since times immemorlal.
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There they were born, and there
they will return each autumn.
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The guardian spirit of the trout was
thought to be related to Tapiotar -
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who gathered the migratory birds
for their journey south.
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Trout spawning is a secret ritual -
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no öne knew much about.
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It takes place im the bottom of fast-
flowing streams, unseen by humans.
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The spawning dance of trout
celebrates life.
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Flowing water sets the rhythm -
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as couples find their way
to the gravelly dance floor -
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and females pick their partners
for a dance.
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Waters cool down
and all movement becomes slower.
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Waters get heavier
as the temperature drops -
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reaching their heaviest
at four degrees Celsius.
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The four-degree water sinks
to the bottom of the lake -
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lifting colder water
upwards towards the surface.
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00:56:35,767 --> 00:56:37,394
Water is the only substance -
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that is lighter when frozen solid
than as a liguid.
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00:56:50,324 --> 00:56:53,493
Even though the northern pike was
considered the leader of all fish -
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it was also labelled
as a "wolf of the waters".
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The water wolf was known
as the pike of the underworld -
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an omen of death.
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Shamans of Lapland believed that
bad souls ended up in pikes' bowels -
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and therefore wouldn't eat pike.
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00:57:14,514 --> 00:57:18,852
The pike played a significant part
in the mythology of ancient Finns.
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00:57:18,894 --> 00:57:23,982
It could traverse between the
worlds of the livirg and the dead.
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It would swim through the deepest of
depths into the underworld, Tuonela -
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but one of Kalevala's heroes,
Ilmarinen, could catch it there.
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Vilimatar arrives
and brings winter with her.
249
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Everything above the ice stops -
250
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and even beneath the surface
life is much slower.
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00:59:16,219 --> 00:59:20,515
Everyone has time to dwell
on their own thoughts.
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01:01:11,376 --> 01:01:16,047
When winter is coming, the northern
pike swims into the depths.
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01:01:17,507 --> 01:01:22,262
Somewhere deep in the cold,
beneath the ice, lies Tuonela -
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01:01:22,762 --> 01:01:28,059
the realm of death watched over
by its armoured guards.
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01:01:29,352 --> 01:01:33,231
The eternal current of living water
flows through even Tuonela -
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01:01:33,273 --> 01:01:37,360
and that is why no one needs to
stay there forever.
257
01:01:37,444 --> 01:01:42,240
The power of flowing water
always brings life with it.
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01:04:00,670 --> 01:04:05,091
Viimatar grows an ever stronger roof
of ice on the lake's surface.
259
01:04:06,176 --> 01:04:08,428
When water takes its icy form -
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01:04:08,511 --> 01:04:12,307
its power shapes and erodes
the earth's crust.
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01:04:12,390 --> 01:04:16,353
The ice age tore grooves into
a bedrock billions of years in age -
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01:04:16,436 --> 01:04:19,272
and brought with it ridge gravel
and erratic boulders -
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01:04:19,356 --> 01:04:21,441
that would divide bodies of water.
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01:04:22,901 --> 01:04:25,653
Deep beneath the ice -
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01:04:25,737 --> 01:04:29,366
one finds more evidence
of the power of water.
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01:04:29,449 --> 01:04:33,661
Rapids have shaped
river bottoms anew.
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01:04:33,703 --> 01:04:38,333
Flowing water has proved
even more powerful than rock.
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01:04:49,094 --> 01:04:52,972
Life forms long since extinct
have also been preserved -
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01:04:53,056 --> 01:04:55,975
within rock layers.
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01:04:57,310 --> 01:05:01,898
There, somewhere deep in the
underworld beyond consciousness -
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01:05:01,981 --> 01:05:06,319
lay also the place from which ancient
Finns received their secret skills.
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01:05:29,426 --> 01:05:32,303
Winter is building
ice roofs on rapids -
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01:05:32,387 --> 01:05:37,308
creating halls of ice where the union
of water and air is celebrated.
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01:05:37,392 --> 01:05:41,688
Flowing water and cold air
are joined here.
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01:07:43,226 --> 01:07:47,522
New life is revealed from underneath
wintery banks of snow.
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01:07:47,605 --> 01:07:50,066
A seal pup has been born
in a snow cave -
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01:07:50,149 --> 01:07:54,654
and now it is time for it to venture
out into the wide world.
278
01:07:59,367 --> 01:08:03,329
Salimaa ringed seals give birth
in midwinter so they take shelter -
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01:08:03,413 --> 01:08:07,458
in a shoreline snow cave with access
to water through a hole in the ice.
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01:08:08,543 --> 01:08:11,254
The mother uses its front flippers
to dig out a cave from the hole -
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01:08:11,337 --> 01:08:16,134
undetectable until springtime,
when its roof collapses.
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01:08:17,468 --> 01:08:20,930
By then the ringed seal pup -
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01:08:20,972 --> 01:08:25,059
is big enough to manage by itself
in the water.
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01:08:33,276 --> 01:08:37,697
There are only about three hundred
Saimaa ringed seals in the world -
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01:08:37,780 --> 01:08:40,950
and they all live in Lake Saimaa.
286
01:08:53,296 --> 01:08:57,091
Saimaa ringed seals are fully adapted
to living in the water -
287
01:08:57,175 --> 01:09:02,263
but because they are mammals,
they have to surface to breathe.
288
01:09:02,347 --> 01:09:06,809
They must also maintain breathing
holes in the ice during wintertime.
289
01:09:06,851 --> 01:09:11,314
These ringed seal can stay submerged
for as long as half an hour.
290
01:11:28,534 --> 01:11:32,997
The rest of nature still waits for
spring to awaken life in the lake:
291
01:11:33,080 --> 01:11:38,294
for millions of fish spawn to
mature into new generations -
292
01:11:38,377 --> 01:11:43,257
for birds to arrive from the south,
for nesting to begin -
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01:11:43,341 --> 01:11:48,262
for eggs to grow into bird families.
294
01:11:49,972 --> 01:11:52,391
Even though ice
still covers the lake -
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01:11:52,475 --> 01:11:56,145
the small ringed seal pup underneath
it brings with it a promise:
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01:11:56,229 --> 01:11:59,398
the cycle of water
will always continue.
297
01:12:22,713 --> 01:12:25,299
The morning mist
arises from the lake -
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01:12:25,383 --> 01:12:28,970
and with it Ahitar
takes to the skies.
299
01:12:32,056 --> 01:12:35,726
As it evaporates and rises
ever higher, the water is purified.
300
01:12:35,810 --> 01:12:40,982
Thunder and lightning
rid the water of dirt -
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01:12:41,065 --> 01:12:44,485
and Ahitar is likewise cleansed.
302
01:12:51,200 --> 01:12:56,664
Coming full circle, the water
returns to the earth and forests -
303
01:12:56,747 --> 01:13:00,293
and Ahitar rains down
from the misty clouds -
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01:13:00,334 --> 01:13:03,504
and back into the spring
where she was born.
305
01:13:07,258 --> 01:13:12,805
There she is reborn new and pure so
that she may start another journey.
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01:13:14,015 --> 01:13:18,102
Old friends are
waiting in the spring.
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01:13:30,698 --> 01:13:33,826
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