Finland as a country has not had so much build towns etc, but instead had forests and lakes and life in close contact with the wild nature, far from other humans. The need to live well the four seasons has made it meaningful to learn from the wild nature skills in living the seasons. The harshness of the weathers has driven most of the ones wanting build things toward moving to luve in the warmer coubtries. And so there has traditionally been lots of wild nature in Finland. The cool and cold weathers are best lived with an emphazis on looking and the sense of atmospheres, with lots of variation in rythm and other heat regulation things. Such is good for objective landscape like thinking of the world and of life. And copying from the ways of living and skilled ways of doing of the wild nature is good for health and general skill level.
So in Kalevala there is the theme of comparing the level of wisdom and skills of the ones who copy from the wild nature, with the level of wisdom and skills of those knterested in build things and memorised theoretical learning.
Likewise there is the threefold theme of south or summer like compared with, is it southern and eastern, Finland where one needs skills of living the tough weathers of the nothern four seasons, is it like spring and autumn, where one spends quite much time outdoors year around, and comparing that with the Lappland where people live surprisingly much indoors and survive largely via build things and social life, but where some of the nature may survive the winter.
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About learning from the wild nature, regardless of climate zone, I think my book "Wonderful, Miracle like Beings" could help, see https://miraclelikenature.blogspot.com/2024/01/book-wonderful-miracle-like-beings.html
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