Vammatar
Finnish · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
The corpus held Loviatar, whom the Kalevala makes the mother of the nine diseases, and none of the three sisters the same poem invokes to take them away. It held the illness and not the cure.
Parentage
Domains
- injury
Relations
- sister of: LoviatarNon-symmetric toward a pre-existing record.Reference treatment: Vammatar is among the daughters of Tuoni and Tuonetar. (secondary)
- invoked by: VäinämöinenNon-symmetric.Reference treatment of Kalevala rune 45: Kivutar is paired with Vammatar in the incantation against Louhi's plague. (secondary)
Sources
- Vammatar is a daughter of Tuoni and Tuonetar, invoked with Kivutar in the Kalevala's healing incantation to take away injury.: Reference treatments of Vammatar and of Kalevala rune 45. (secondary)