Category: Finnish Mythology

Description: Moon Goddess.

Description: God of cereal crops, particularly identified with the sowing of wheat. After Christianization, he was absorbed by the figure of St. Urban.

Description: Goddess of Illness. Daughter of Tuoni.

Description: Fertility goddess. Concerned with childbirth and the future destiny of the infant. Consort of the sky god Num. Her sacred animals include the hare…

Description: Goddess of death and decay, haunted graveyards, snatching the flesh of the dead. In Tuonela, she lived in an invisible country guarded by the…

Other Names: Mader-Atcha. Description: First sky god, creator. No shape or identity, creative impulse only. Rules over sky, thunder, weather, twilight, dusk. Jumala (god) In…

Other Names: Votyak Description: Sky goddess. The name became incorporated into Christian tradition and interpreted as “the mother of God”.

Ilmarinen (maker of the sky?) In the Finnish epic poem The Kalevala, the smith, forger of the magic sampo. Ilmarinen constructed the magic sampo, a…

Description: God of air. Father of Ilmatar. Rules over air.

Description: Hunting god, guardian deity of hare hunters.