Blind daughter of Tuoni and Tuonetar and the worst of the death-realm daughters of Tuonela; a goddess of plague, disease and desolation. In the canonical Birth of the Nine Diseases (Runo 45) she was impregnated by the cold east wind and bore nine sons, the personified plagues sent by Louhi against Kalevala: pistos, ahki, luuvalo, riisi, paise, rupi, syoja, rutto, and an unnamed ninth and worst, the embodiment of envy, whom she banished to scourge mankind. She is the mother of disease in Finnish mythology. In the old folk-poems the names Loviatar and Louhi are frequently interchanged; Lonnrot made them two distinct characters. Wired as daughter of finnish_tuoni and finnish_tuonetar. The nine disease-sons are disease-personifications (and the ninth unnamed), not registered as standalone figures.