Sky Father

Estonian sky-father. English 'Sky Father' leads; native Uku / Vanaisa in term (Latin script). Uku is genuinely folk-attested in incantations (cf. Finnish Ukko), though the systematised 'high god' portrait was elaborated by 19th-c. writers. Father of the thunder-sons Kõu and Pikker.

Children

• Thunder

Domains

• sky and weather
• thunder

Powers

• father the storm-sons

Epithets

• Vanaisa
• Taevataat

Relations

• equated with: Ukko

Sources

• Estonian mythology, Wikipedia