Ilmatar
Finnish · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Finnish primordial spirit of air, the virgin of creation and mother of Väinämöinen.
Domains
- air
- creation
Powers
- Shape the earth, headlands and bays from her body
- Cradle the world-egg on her knee
- descends from the air to float on the primal sea for ages
Epithets
- Luonnotar Daughter of Nature; the air-virgin who descended to the sea as the Water-Mother and bore VäinämöinenKalevala, runo 1 (primary)
- ilman impi 'virgin / maiden of the air'Kalevala (Lönnrot), Runo 1 (primary)
Sources
- existence: Kalevala, runo I (Lönnrot) (primary)