Rauni
Finnish · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
THE CORPUS HELD UKKO AND NOT HIS WIFE, in a tradition whose word for thunder — ukkonen — is his name, and where the pair is the oldest one attested. Akka and Rauni are recorded as one figure with two names rather than as two records, which is the reading the treatments consulted take.
Domains
- fertility
- the rowan
Relations
- consort of: UkkoNon-symmetric, so nothing is written onto the pre-existing Ukko record; 'spouse' is the honest kind and cannot be used.Reference treatment: Rauni is the wife of Ukko, and Agricola's Karelian list names the two together. (secondary)
Sources
- Rauni, also called Akka, is Ukko's consort, a goddess of fertility whose name is that of the rowan, named in Agricola's 1551 Karelian list.: Reference treatments of Rauni, of Akka, and of Agricola's 1551 list. (secondary)