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”Sontiainen” means dung beetle. Knowing this added very little to the story though..

• lotophage 3y ago
  It's think it's very fitting. The dung beetle is the worldly embodiment of Sisyphus. Doomed to forever push a boulder uphill only for it to roll down again when he was near the top.
  • viciousvoxel 3y ago
    although probably unintentional, there's a bit of synchronism too, since the dung beetle (aka scarab) is the ancient Egyptian (Coptic) symbol of resurrection (among other things).
    • blincoln 3y ago
      The way it's been described to me, the ancient Egyptians viewed dung beetles sort of like a phoenix (phoenices?) or an ouroborous, because they believed the beetles to have the power of self-creation (from the mistaken assumption that a dung beetle could survive entirely on dung it produced itself). So I wouldn't be so sure it's an unintentional reference.