Mission:
With this project we want to run a web site providing free informations
and points of view about the finnish mythology topic.
We're a completely no profit group, we do this as a free time hobby, and we're completely
driven by passion, love for culture, and the idea that the right to know must be free.
We recently added a PAYPAL DONATE link for being able to receive some offers from
people thinking our work is worth something. The money you will donate will be used to pay
the domain registration (soon on www.finnishmyth.org), to pay for the web space,
to buy books we need for writing the contents, to pay all those expenses (phone, computers,
softwares) a web site management requires.
We hope you will enjoy the result of our effort, and that it will help you somehow.
Disclaimer & Copyright:
These pages are UNOFFCIAL and represent a PERSONAL VIEW of the topic.
No official team or institute is involved in this project.
Contents comes from the work of authors. At the end of each text you can find
the name of the author who's the only responsible for the content.
If somehow you think there's a copyright violation and/or you claim the copyright
ownership of texts and/or images, please immediately contact the webmaster who
will promptly erase the contents that should not be here or, at your request, add
your name to the team.
Authors:
- Research, God and Cult Texts, Poems and translations of poems from trad. texts (in italics) by REIJO NENONEN
- Webmaster, Layout, Concept, HTML code, Paging and main introductions by LUCA PIOTTO
- Poems, tales, comparative myths, additional informations by NICOLA CITARELLA
Additional & occasional helpers:
- Grammar check by Maximilian Callaghan
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Reijo Nenonen was born in 1952 in Helsinki.
Graduated DVM in 1978 and
since then has worked as a municipal vet officer, first in Nothern
Finland and since 1989 in Central Finland. He has a special interest in
exotic pets.
In his free time he is a Suzuki VX rider, scuba diver (PADI and
CMAS) and bird-watcher. Every fall he makes long treks on foot to the
wilderness of Lapland.
He is also very interested in palaeoanthropology and myths of the
Northern peoples.
Personal homepage: http://www.liaani.com/
- Luca Piotto was born in 1973 in Italy.
He studied computer programming at high school.
Upon graduation, he worked as alarm systems programmer and as business
agent.
After being in Army, he worked as a software developer in the
research and development section of an insurance-oriented software house.
Nowadays he works as Industrial Process Control computer programmer.
He is also knowledgeable about user interfaces, database programming, A.I,
and HTML programming, low lewel programming, PLC, micro controllers.
In his free time he enjoys motorcycles, vintage & sport cars, heavy metal music,
reading, vintage computers, studying Northern European Mythology, watching movies and
sometimes playing electric bass.
Also travelling is one of the things he like the most, and in January 2000 he made his first journey to Finland.
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Nicola Citarella was born in Italy. Graduated at Naples University L’Orientale, in English and Finnish languages and literatures.
From 1999 to 2001 he worked as a part-time journalist/reporter for Lo Spettro, a daily newspaper printed and issued in Campania. Furthermore, he gave a contribution to Drakkar, a magazine about nordic cultural exchanges.
The subject of his final university graduation essay has been Finnish Mythology compared to ancient Scandinavian, Anglo-Saxon and Celtic Myths.
He has travelled to Finland and North Europe several times.
You can email us at finnishmyth@finnishmyth.org
Additional & occasional helpers
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Maximilian Callaghan was born in Canada on March 20, 1973. After
high-school, he pursued a B.Sc. degree in Molecular Biology and
Biotechnology at the University of Ottawa. He is now completing a Master's
degree in Biotechnology. His project involves the genetic engineering of
plants to produce pharmaceutical proteins (drugs).
He spends several weeks each summer exploring Canada's beautiful wilderness
in his whitewater canoe. When not paddling, he travels the highways and
backroads on his Suzuki motorcycle. His many other interests include the
myths and legends of the Celts and the Northern peoples of Europe.