Suonetar
Finnish · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
THE MOST FAMOUS SCENE IN THE POEM AFTER THE SAMPO — a mother reassembling her son out of a river — AND THE REGISTRY HELD NOBODY WHO DOES THE WORK. The healing charms name the parts: veins, sinews, flesh, and a being for each. This record holds one of them; the rest are a census row.
Domains
- veins and sinews
Relations
- restored: LemminkäinenNon-symmetric.Reference treatment: Suonetar plays an important part in the restoration to life of Lemminkäinen in the fifteenth rune. (secondary)
Sources
- Suonetar is the Finnish goddess of the veins, invoked in the restoration of Lemminkäinen in Kalevala rune 15.: Reference treatments of Suonetar and of Kalevala rune 15. (secondary)