Official music video of Pyllytä peto from Slack Bird's upcoming album Hämärään (Harava Records, 19.3.2021)
Filmed and directed by Onni Tappola.
Pyllytä peto written by Slack Bird.
CAST:
Pyllyttäjä - Johanna Jorma Kinanen
Twerkers - Awa Sowe, Alexandra Ässä, Assia
The Money Boss - Saara Lahtinen
The Bears - Zahra Kian, Toni Kautto, Toni Essel
In the old days, people in Finland believed that every living thing had innate power: a magic called väki. The most powerful väki in the world came from the human vagina, especially older women's genitalia who've given birth. Its magic, vitun väki, was so strong that people with vaginas could banish threats away, such as bears, by pyllytys (freely translated as mooning or literally "butting" as in butt = pylly).
It was believed that if a person with vitun väki encounters a bear in a forest, the said person should bend over and expose their genitalia to the bear. The bear's power being weaker than the vagina fueled väki, the bear would run away. Pyllyttäjät, or mooners / "butters" were also an actual occupation, and people would hire them to moon away the predators and other threats in the fields and forests to protect the cattle. Also menstruation blood was rubbed onto the cattle for protection. Vittu was so strong that it was believed to be also a channel to Vainajala, the Underworld. This channel was especially strong during periods.
So I thought there's a song in there and that song is Pyllytä peto.