Kekri
Finnish · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
THE STRONGEST CULT RECORD IN THIS BATCH and the only figure in it whose feast is still kept. The record does not decide whether the god is named after the feast or the feast after the god; the sources do not, and the question is the substance of the disagreement about him. Carries a verified-solitary verdict.
Domains
- cattle increase
Sources
- Kekri is named in Agricola's 1551 list as the god who increases the growth of livestock, and is also the name of the Finnish feast of the dead at the close of the farming year.: Reference treatments of Kekri as deity and as festival, and of Agricola's 1551 list. (secondary)