OSMOTAR (Creator of beer from Finnish folklore) by artist Ulla Anobile

Found wood, paper mache, acrylics, improvised cross-stitching on burlap, embroidered felt, wooden beads, wool fibers 16 1/2” tall, 11” at the widest part The Birth of Beer story:  I made it as brief as I could; you should read the original story and its several versions, with their endless alliterations & repetitions! 🍺It is joked that in the Finnish epic Kalevala, 400 lines deal with beer, but only 200 with creation. It is no joke however that many sources describe beer as the ‘sacred drink of the Baltic-Finnic peoples’, various rituals and celebrations attached to it proving the point. 🍺This is a ‘flash’ version of the beer story that inspired my Osmotar doll. I used a combination of Poem 20 in Kalevala, and chant 27 (The Birth of Beer) in a volume called ‘Ancient Spell Poems of Finnish People’. 💍A big wedding was being planned in Pohjola, the legendary North Country. It became Osmotar’s job to find the beer recipe that would bring happiness to the wedding crowd, which included m