Tracking Divinity

**Please Note: The translation of this story includes the use of the term "Laplander" to refer to the people of the story. While Lapland is still used today to designate a large area that occupies the northern part of Sweden, parts of Norway, Finland, and Russia, the name does not recognize the traditional keepers of the land and culture. The Sami people are indigenous to the land of this story and the preferred name for the region that is now called Lapland is Sápmi.

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The old myths don't often show Divnity blazing through the sky bellowing instructions. More often the Divine is in hoofprints, bird songs, grains of snow whispering through the pines.

The story of Lippo and Tapio is an old myth from Lapland. Today, Stephanie MacKay, co-founder Fianna Wilderness School and long-time student of Martín Prechtel, takes us through this unassumingly profound story about the adventurous spirit of youth, passages of initiation, the deepening power of grief, and the necessity of failure.

Here's a link to the PDF of this story.

Story soruce: Scandinavian Folk and Fairy Tales, Edited by Claire Booss, Avenel Books: New York

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