What is Virpominen? ▫️ Palm Sunday Tradition in Finland 🎵 Virvon Varvon
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- Have you heard of "virpominen" before? Why do kids dress up as witches? Why are they giving me decorated willow branches?
In this Finnish lesson, I will tell you about the Finnish Palm Sunday Easter tradition called "virpominen". This includes going over the "virvon varvon" jingle :)
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This looks like a mixture of Easter and Halloween. There is candy in both, so yay to the kids 🍫🍫
Kiitos for the explanation, very useful.
Very interesting tradition. Goes to show how Finland is a unique but cool country.
Kiitos! Please do more tradition videos😆
I agree!
What an interesting tradition for Palm Sunday! Finland is so cool! Here in America, the Catholics shape palm branches in the form of a cross after attending Mass. Enjoy your Palm Sunday!
Very interesting! Would also love to see some more tradition videos!
I agree!
Thank you so much❤️ I’m Polish Orthodox Christian and here we will also celebrate Palm Sunday and Easter soon.
Palmusunnuntai in here is pretty similar to halloween in America. You dress up, go from door to door singing a jingle/lorua and might get candy as exchange :Dd I wonder why we don’t celebrate halloween like in some countries, I think I would like it :(
Kiitos!!!
tällainen lisäys Pohjanmailla lapset perinteisesti virpoo vasta lankalauantaina ( pääsiäislauantaina).
Ja poltetaan kokkoja.
Amazing! Thank you! I will do this with my 3 year old on Palm Sunday in Scotland! 😆🏴
Kiitos paljon! This is such an interesting tradition I've never heard about before!! I love the jingle!
Aah that jingle
How cute!😅
Very interesting!! Kiiti 🙏
Super helpful and interesting video. Thx!!
wow, very interesting :) I didn't know about that!
Quite interesting isn't it :D
Lapualla mennään tänään virpomaan. On hauska katsoa englanninkielistä videota, jossa opetetaan omaa äidinkieltä.🇫🇮
Interesting.... :)
There are two Orthodox churches in my town in the USA. The Greek church uses palms for Palm Sunday. Since palm trees don't grow here, they have to obtain the palms from a florist. The Russian church continues the Russian tradition of using willow branches, since palm trees don't grow in Russia, either. The Russian parishioners have a more inexpensive Palm Sunday than the Greeks do, since they gather the willow branches for free from trees in their back yards.
I’m also Orthodox Christian brother ☦️🙏🏻
Eilen näin neljä pientä noitaa YLETV:ssä. He heiluttelivat oksiaan ja sanoivat "vaiven varvan". Yksi tyttö sanoi, että he saivat paljon suklaata - söpö!
Ihana!
Kat, did you attend Rippikoulu?
I did :)
Virpominen is Carelian tradition. Wearing costumes while doing it is cultural appropriation done by Finnish majority. Virpominen happens on Palm Sunday, wearing costumes as Trulli-witch is western tradition and happens on Easter Sunday. These traditions should not be mixed, although many ignorant people especially from Southern Finland tend to do that.
Respect the Carelian culture.
4.17 Vain kysyn kuinka trullia voivat antaa siunauksen?
Germany is a Christian country too, but I’ve never even heard about the existence of this special day xD
In America, the traditional notion of a witch pictures her as an ugly old woman wearing black robes and a conical black hat. I guess this idea comes from the British Isles, but I don't know how widespread it is across Europe. An interesting fact I found out some years ago concerns the Tocharians. The Tocharians lived in what is now the Xinjiang province of China (where the Uighurs live today), but they were Indo-Europeans. They became extinct about 800 years ago. Archaeologists have discovered what pagan Tocharian priestesses wore as the uniform of their office--black robes and a conical black hat! This must be an echo from ancient Indo-European culture which still survives as a folk memory. The Finns are Uralic rather than Indo-European, but they've been in close contact with the surrounding Indo-Europeans for many centuries. I wonder when this idea of the witch was adopted by the Finns--centuries ago, or more recently? And why is Palm Sunday like American Halloween? I can see a connection between witches and All Souls' Day, but a connection with Palm Sunday escapes me.
An excellent video but you inspired many more questions than you answered. Thank you Kat
The Tocharians may have come to speak a language they learned from trading with people from the area now called Iran. On the other hand, maybe Indo European is descended from the area of southern Siberia where the people who left evidence of themselves as The Tarim Mummies we're from.
In any case, they did bring evidence of a need to make cheese rather than just drink milk raw. So maybe they had done more hunting before migrating to greener pastures?
As a finn, I think witch is a old grandma with a scarf, red cheeks and rather occationally michiveous not bad, ofcourse I regocnise the black and evil witch too as a witch because of the american tv shows and movies. The virvonta is actually originally for banishing evil spirits.
isn't this what later became Halloween?
Hi 👋, voitko tehdä videon aiheesta (stä) kiitos
we call it a chant, or song.
Funny how Christians name "Palm Sun-day" after the "sun" and not the "Son" (of God)?
All the names of the days of the week that we use in English were named before the English became Christians, so they're all pagan names. (This is also true for the names of the months.) After becoming Christian, nobody bothered to rename them. The only language I know of that renamed the days of the week because of Christian principles was Greek, which adopted the Jewish names for the days.
@@bigscarysteve Thank you for replying. I guess it shows that the Church doesn't really have much power or influence in a secular world or at least it chooses not to wield it if it doesn't bother Christians evoking the names of so many pagan gods when they refer to the units of time created by God. I knew the Greeks used the name "preparation day" for Friday as it is mentioned in the Gospel accounts of the crucifixion, although not the actual "sixth day" (Yom Shishi) that is used elsewhere in Scripture.
The Jews still use this numerical format up to today, such as Yom Rishon ("First Day") instead of "Sun"-day, Yom Sheni ("Second Day") instead of "Monday" or Moon-day, except for Shabbat or the Sabbath which means "rest" in Hebrew for the last or seventh day. They haven't changed the exact wording that God used to name them in Genesis in the belief that it would be an insult to the Almighty who created them plus in cognisance of the Commandment that forbids to even have the names of false gods on their lips or the veneration or worship of celestial bodies that God created, which is why the pagans called the first day of the week (Yom Rishon) "Sun"-day as you say. It seems that most Gentile Christians have no such compunction as it doesn't seem to bother them.
I wonder how they will describe the day of their celebration of Yeshua's (later re-named "Jesus" by the Gentiles) resurrection when they meet Him in heaven? Will they still not care to attribute it to the "sun" or will they opt for a more Biblical term like the Jews do? I guess most don't care, at least judging by the lack of interest I have always noticed when it comes to this matter.
We certainly are a very open-minded and tolerant bunch in the Church if not without a modicum of conscience. At least it has taught me just how the followers of Yeshua defend their God in the public arena for all to see. Advertisements for non-believers to worship on the day of the sun! 🌞