The Gods and Goddesses of Finnish-Ugrian Places



Atho
Other Names:  Ahti.
Description:  Chief god of waters and seas.  Husband of Vellamo.
Rules Over:  Water, sea.

Akka
Other Names:  Maa-Emoinen, Mader-Akka, Rauni.
Description:  Earth Mother, Goddess of the harvest and feminine sexuality. Wife of Ukko.
Rules Over:  Harvest, fertility, earth magick.

Hiisi
Description:  Group of evil spirit that worked with Lempo and Paha.
Rules Over:  Evil, skilled sorcerers, necromancers, spells, sacred drums, trance, chanting.

Ilma
Description:  God of air.  Father of Ilmatar.
Rules Over: Air.

Ilmatar
Other Names:  Lounnotar.
Description:  Virgin daughter of Air, Sky Mother, Water Mother, Creatrix Goddess, Daughter of Nature, Mother of the Waters.
Rules Over: Immense powers.

Ilmarinen
Description:  God smith who forged the mysterious, powerful talisman Sampo.
Rules Over:  Smiths, magick, talismans, prosperity.

Jumala
Other Names:  Mader-Atcha.
Description:  Creator God, originally probably a sky god.
Rules Over:  Sky, thunder, weather, twilight, dusk.

Kalma
Description: Goddess of Death.  Daughter of Tuoni and Tuonetar.
Rules Over:  Death.

Kipu-Tytto
Description:  Goddess of Illness.  Daughter of Tuoni.
Rules Over:  Illness.

Kuu
Description:  Moon Goddess.

Leib-Olmai
Description:  Bear God.
Rules Over:  Luck in hunting, protection from injuries.

Louhi
Description:  Goddess of sorcery, evil, dark magick.
Rules Over:  Sorcery, evil, dark magick.

Loviator
Description:  Daughter Goddess of Tuoni and Tuonetar.  Diseases came to be from her union with the Wind.
Rules Over:  Plagues, all evil.

Mielikki
Description:  Goddess of the Forest.  Wife of Tapio and mother of Tuulikki and Nyyrikki.  Protectress of woodland animals.  Goddess of the Hunt.
Rules Over:  Bears, hunting, animals, archery, abundant grain.

Mother of Metsola
Description:  Forest Goddess.
Rules Over:  Forest.

Num
Description:  Samoyed sky god.
Rules Over:  Sky.

Numitorem
Description:  Vogul sky god who created all animals.
Rules Over:  Animals.

Paiva
Description:  Sun God.
Rules Over:  Sun.

Pellervoinen
Description:  God of fields, trees and plants.
Rules Over:  Fields, trees, plants, harvest, fertility.

Rauni
Other Names:  Maan-Eno, Ravdna, Roonikka.
Descriptoin:  Forest Mother, Thunder Goddess.  One of the most powerful deities and wife of thunder.
Rules Over:  Childbirth, ease from pain.

Tapio
Description:  God of water and woods.  Husband of Mielikki, father of Nyyrikki and Tuulikki.  Wore a fir hat and moss cloak.
Rules Over:  Abundance of game.

Tuoni
Description:  Lord of Tuonela/Manala (underworld).
Rules Over: Death.

Ukko
Description:  God of the sky and air, Supreme God, highest of gods.
Rules Over:  Clouds, rains, thunder, help with the impossible.

Yambe-Akka
Description:  "Old woman of the dead."  Has charge of the underworld.
Rules Over:  Underworld.
 
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