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RE: What animal represents your country
September 19, 2013 at 7:15 am
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Oh Poca, that's quite pretty. Reminds me of the Swedish dalahäst (Dalecarlian horse), a very common symbol for Dalarna, a province in the middle of Sweden.
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EDIT: And regarding the link you posted, I totally forgot about the bear! According to an ancient superstition, you're not supposed to call a bear a bear, because saying his true name will summon him and make him powerful. So, though karhu is bear in Finnish, it can also be called e.g. otso (also used as a male name), mesikämmen (literally translated it means honey paw) and kontio. The bear is also called the king of the forest, but that's a title he shares with the moose 
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RE: What animal represents your country
September 19, 2013 at 7:42 am
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RE: What animal represents your country
September 19, 2013 at 7:51 am
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RE: What animal represents your country
September 19, 2013 at 8:37 am
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RE: What animal represents your country
September 19, 2013 at 10:57 am
(September 19, 2013 at 8:37 am)apophenia Wrote:
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Right in the dick!
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RE: What animal represents your country
September 19, 2013 at 11:06 am
Lions, 3 of them.
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RE: What animal represents your country
September 19, 2013 at 11:14 am
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RE: What animal represents your country
September 19, 2013 at 11:18 am
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(September 19, 2013 at 11:06 am)5thHorseman Wrote: Lions, 3 of them.
I will never understand for what reason THAT country of all places is the lion.
Geographically speaking, of course.
"Uh, yeah, the lions have really become a pest here in England.
Just can't keep those bloody fuckers out of my garden."
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RE: What animal represents your country
September 19, 2013 at 11:31 am
(September 19, 2013 at 11:18 am)Walking Void Wrote: I will never understand for what reason THAT country of all places is the lion.
Geographically speaking, of course.
"Uh, yeah, the lions have really become a pest here in England.
Just can't keep those bloody fuckers out of my garden."
Yup. Reminds me of the fact that when they started to translate the Bible into Finnish, the translators did not know what a lion was. They named the animal jalopeura, which means noble deer. Because you know, they have so much in common
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RE: What animal represents your country
September 19, 2013 at 11:39 am
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