Vellamo
Finnish · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
Finnish water-goddess, mistress of lakes and sea, consort of Ahti; the pair dwell at the bottom of the sea in Ahtola. Named already in Ganander Mythologia Fennica (1789) and recurrent in Kalevala-metre fishing-charms (the vesiluvut). Authored as the attested but previously unregistered spouse of the corpus figure finnish_ahti, whose record names her repeatedly as his consort.
Domains
- water
- sea and lakes
- fish
Powers
- Drive the fish and give the catch from the deep
- Rule the sea-realm Ahtola with Ahti and guard its creatures
Epithets
- Veen emanta Mistress of Water; the goddess who rules the deep with AhtiFinnish fishing incantations (SKVR), the water-charms naming Vellamo Veen emanta. (primary)
Relations
- spouse: AhtiConsort of the water-god Ahti, with whom she rules Ahtola. Reciprocal needed on the existing figure finnish_ahti.Kalevala (Lonnrot 1849); Ganander, Mythologia Fennica (1789), Vellamo the wife of Ahti. (primary)
Sources
- Vellamo is the Finnish goddess of the water, lakes and sea, called Veen emanta (Mistress of Water), the consort of the water-god Ahti with whom she rules the sea-realm Ahtola and drives the fish.: Ganander, Christfrid. Mythologia Fennica (1789), Vellamo. (primary); Kalevala (Lonnrot 1849), Ahti and Vellamo of the sea-realm; Runo 48. (primary); Siikala, Anna-Leena. Itamerensuomalaisten mytologia (2012). (secondary)