First of all, thanks for the reaction! The song is about the bee and it's journey to the halls of the over-god Ukko. The bee was sent by the mother of a hero Lemminkäinen who was found drowned in the river Tuonela. Mother collected her son's body and stitched it back together, but couldn't bring life to it. She then sends a bee to the halls of over-god Ukko to get some honey wich is so potent that it would bring his son back to life. That's about it, i think. I hope you will do the whole album. It's a banger!

"The bee is a prominent character in the Kalevala and features in moments of birth and resurrection. Once the world has been created we are informed: ‘“from the clouds dripped honey.’ The women of the north are coveted, not just for their beauty, but also for their culinary skills with honey: ‘she may bake honey bread, know how to brew beer.’ Shortly afterwards, ‘smith Ilmarinen was born’ and a ‘bee rose up from the ground… O bee, lightweight man, bring mead on your wing, carry honey on your tongue, from six flowery tips, from seven grass tops, for steel things to be made, for iron to be wrought… spill honey on the earth.’ Apparently, the bee is essential to the forging of the world. Lemminkäinen’s mother resurrects her son using honey-based potions and spells, collected from the underworld with the assistance of a bee. Her concoction includes a drop of mead brought to anoint the weary one, to tend the ill-befallen… O bee, bird of ours, king of the forest flowers, go now to fetch some honey and to find some mead… to heal the ill.’ The resurrection ritual continues: So it (the bee) comes panting, travels doubled up, all its wings drenched in mead, its feathers in melted honey. She, Lemminkäinen’s mother, took the ointments and anointed the weary one, tended the ill-befallen; but no help came from them, no words came to the man. Lemminkäinen’s mother’s does not despair: Bee, my little bird, fly that other way, right over nine seas to an island on the main, a honey mainland, to Tuuri’s new cabin, the Worshipful boundless one. There is pleasant honey there and good ointment there, which will suit sinews and be good for limbs. The bee obeyed: The honey was being cooked… in tiny cauldrons, in beautiful pans that would hold a thumb, fit a fingertip. The bee, slight man, got some of those ointments. Next, we learn: The Creator sang charms and the pure God talked, the lord anointed his brood inured by an evil power. Dip your wings in mead, and your feathers in melted honey. The bee laments its chances of completing the task and is told: You will get there easily, trip there handsomely, over the moon, underneath the sun, between heaven’s stars. For one day you will flutter to the moon’s brow-bones, for another you will whizz to the Great Bear’s shoulder blades, for a third you will soar up to the Seven Stars’ back; then ‘tis a mite of a way a tiny circuit to where God the holy lives to the blessed one’s dwellings. And so the bee flies to the ‘Almighty’s chamber’ and returns with the ointment that allows Lemminkäinen’s mother to successfully complete her son’s resurrection."

From the Finnish folklores Kalevala. Amorphis has made many songs based on the Kalevala. And for those who didn't know it yet, the Lord of the Rings sagas are in part based on the Kalevala, and Finnish language is said to be basis on the Elvish language 🤗

Amorphis 💙💙💙💙

Damn. I found your channel just yesterday and tonight you dropped a song from one of my all time favorite bands! Instant subscribe. I also went on and watched your reaction to "On the Dark Waters". However, I have noticed that you remember to say almost every video how you like your growling vocals. I cannot understand how all my fellow Amorphis fans have not suggested "Amongst Stars" for you to react. The song includes guest singer Anneke von Giersbergen and the growls on that song are few and only to emphasize a point. You will hate yourself if you don't check the song out. And I will buy you a beer if you don't like it. Love your content! Cheers!

The beginning of the song is probably a reference to the poem of Kalevala, which some mythologists believe originating from meteor impact crater of Kaali in Saarenmaa, Estonia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaali_crater So they mix two stories of Kalevala, though also hero Lemminkäinen have some connections to that same island.

You should do more often Amorphis 😉 I recommend Nightbirds Song 👍🏻 Also The Four Wise Ones (official video), there you can actually see Marko Hietala in back stage 😄

Kalevala is wild.

And how gorgeous is that video, its bee and honeycombs graphics! Generally not big fan of lyrics videos, but sometimes they are cool, and for me this one of those times. That pendulum btw, is Ukonvasara (Ukko's hammer), a common pendant used in pagan age Finland and Estonia. There's also pendant model for axe, as both hammer and axe were Ukko's tools. Ukko is the same god, worshipped with different names widely in pagan age Europe and Western Asia, before arrival of Islam, Buddhism and Christianity.

Kalevala 🇫🇮

4 weeks without Amorphis!! ;D