Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Sampsa" | Finnish | vegetation god who gives life to seed who lies dormant through the Winter. Finnish |
God name "Sampsa (sedge)" | Pre - Christian Finnish | vegetation god. He is perceived as a giver of life to seed which lies dormant through the Winter months. His unnamed consort, to whom he is wed in a form of sacred marriage which takes place at sowing time, is also his stepmother.... |
Goddess name "Sukkamielli" | Finnish | Goddess of fertility and jolly bonking. Finnish |
"Suoyatar" | Finnish | One of the forces of evil in the Kalevala, who gives birth to the serpent of evil or death by means of her spittle. Finnish |
Spirit name "Tapio" | East | Forest spirit or god. Hunters prayed to him before a hunt. East Finnish |
God name "Tapio" | Pre - Christian Finnish | Hunting god. Believed to inhabit Forests and invoked before a hunt.... |
God name "Tuoni" | Finnish | The god of the underworld. Finnish |
God name "Ukko" | Finnish | God of Rain storms, thunder, weather and the sky. Finnish |
God name "Ukko" | Pre - Christian Finnish | Thunder god. Drives a cart which generates flashes of lightning as the horses' hoofs hit stones along the way; the noise of thunder comes from the wheels or from Ukko grinding corn with a big stone. Attributes: ax, blue robe, hammer and sword.... |
"Vainamoinen" | Finnish | The central character in the Finnish folklore and the main character in the national epic Kalevala. He was described as an old and wise man, and he possessed a potent, magical voice. |
Goddess name "Veden Emo" | Finnish | Goddess of water. Finnish |
Goddess name "Vedenemo" | Finnish | mother of waters, Karelian goddess of water. Finnish |
Spirit name "Veen" | Finnish | The water Mother, a spirit believed to rule the waters and their bounty. Finnish |
Goddess name "Vellamo" | Finnish | Goddess the goddess of the sea, the wife of Ahti, the god of the sea and of fishing. Finnish |
"Väinämöinen" | Finland | The old and wise man, who possessed a potent, magical voice. The central character in Finnish folklore and he is the main character in the Kalevala. |
Goddess name "Wardi Mumi Finnish" | Ugric | Goddess of war Ugric |