[Old Student]

Kalevala is the Finnish National Myth, aka "The Land of Heroes." It is, by turns, light and dark, with more than it's fair share of the sort of gloom the northern European peoples abound in. Look at the Norse myth of Ragnarok. Seems to me the Russians have quite a bit of that sort of thing in their legends, too. Chernebog, for example.

[SuziQ]

Hey, if I had to live with all that reduced sunlight and snow cover, I'd stay depressed, too!