Ior Bock
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Ior Bock, born Bror Holger Svedlin (born January 17, 1942), claims that his family line (Boxström) has been keepers of an ancient folklore tradition passed down through the generations, that provides insight into the pagan culture of Finland and its history.
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[edit] Biography
According to Bock's autobiographical Saga of Bock, he was born as the result of an incestuous relationship between captain Knut Victor Boxström (1860-1942), who would have been 81 years old at the time, and his own daughter Rhea. Knut's only son had been killed in the Finnish Civil War in 1918, and this was a desperate measure to continue the male line.
The Finnish free-lance journalist Magnus Londen would rather Bock be born to a gardener from Porvoo and adopted by Bertel and Rhea Boxstrom-Svedlin. In his investigative article Londen stresses that Ior Bock seem to have had a somewhat troublesome childhood. At the age of nine he was supposedly sent off to an institution in 1951. He finished school at age 15 and got a training practice as a lighting-technician at Svenska Teatern, The Swedish Theatre in Helsinki, where he complied his basic education to become a professional actor at the same theatre already by the age of 21.
In May 1962, Ior's brother Erik (also adopted) died of a gunshot wound under unclear circumstances. In the police report, Ior originally stated that he had thrown a loaded pistol to Erik, which accidentally went off, shooting him through the heart and killing him; however, he later claimed (or admitted) that his brother had committed suicide. In closing the case Ior was eventually given a four-month suspended sentence for involuntary manslaughter.
Due to his family's specific interest and knowledge of Finnish history he became privately engaged with the history of Sveaborg, the largest and most central monument of modern Finland. By 1973 he was employed as a tourist guide at the famous island fortress of Suomenlinna until 1985, as his fabulous saga became known.
On June 3, 1999, Ior Bock was attacked in Helsinki and stabbed in the back with a knife several times. The attack left him a quadriplegic. He continues to promote his ideas.
[edit] Teachings
After the funeral of his mother (June 23th, 1984) Ior (Boxström-Svedlin) claimed that his mother Rhea (Boxstrom-Svedlin) had left him a will that contained a very specific duty, which was to bring their "very family-saga" to the attention of professional historians as well as the public. The first recordings where done in Swedish, already 1984 and 1985, at The Archeive of Folklore in Helsinki. Later he gave further outlines and specifics in numerous tapes - and 1996 the Finnish writer Juha Javanainen collected some basic extracts in the book "Bockin Perheen Saga" (Helsinki, 1996).
In his saga Mr. Bock uses a distinct and specific etymology, based on the letters of the Scandinavian alphabets (Swedish and Finnish). To support his alleged "historical saga" he relates it to the old folklore of Scandinavia, supposedly describing what formed the nucleus of the ancient Finnish and Scandinavian cultures.
One of the more surprising lessons to be learned from his stories is that the ancient culture had different ideals from our modern ones, such as the common tradition of sperm-drinking. The reason is seemingly to "save their semen" - by practising autofellatio, which this family-saga names sauna-solmu - in order to drink the Viisauden Vesi (water of wisdom), also referred to as "The Water of Life" and "The Seeds of Life" (spermia). Women would ingest their mahla (sap), (nowadays erroneusly? called;) "female ejaculation" accordingly. Moreover they would drink their vaginal liquid with a straw. Further they would also insert the straw into another woman's vagina, in what today would be viewed as a "lesbian act". According to the Bock-Saga this used to be collective tradition amongst men and women, where "hart-friends" (of the same sex) would share a special favour and sacrament to each other, enhancing their respective fertility and vital energy.
Besides yoga exercises to keep limber, he and his followers began fundraising in order to finance the excavation of an ancient treasure chamber, the legendary Temple of Lemminkäinen. According to his family's stories, a large stone slab covered the entrance to one of the temple's hallways - on the side of a mountain. In the years between 1987 and 1990, a stone slab was found and so was a hallway - going 70 metres inside the Sibbo mountain, 35 km east of Helsinki. Allegedly, the ancient royal family of Finland used this temple for storage for many generations. This area was the ancient seat of the Boxström family.
In the summer of 1990, marijuana smoking was observed on Ior Bock's premises, which led to police charges and a social scandal. Consequently, sponsorship of the excavation drastically diminished. The last excavations stopped in 1991 - far from being completed. Ior Bock has been trying to raise funds to continue the excavation, but without success. Yet, he still contends that there were many encouraging features discovered during the former excavations. In particular, he emphasizes that his mother's story of a hallway hidden under Sibbo mountain proved to be true.
[edit] Bock in modern culture
In 1994, Kingston Wall, a Finnish progressive rock group included the core of Bock's teachings on their last album, Tri-Logy. The saga was described in the CD booklet and some of the song lyrics featured themes from it.
