Ilmarinen the Sky-Smith

Karelian sky-smith hero; the requested Sampo is foregrounded in materialCulture. English 'Ilmarinen the Sky-Smith' leads; native Ilmarinen in term. Demigod/culture-hero tier (divine smith who forged the heavens). Distinct id from existing finnish_ilmarinen; the Karelian runo-corpus (e.g. Arhippa Perttunen's Sampo-songs) is the actual source layer.

Domains

• smithing
• sky forging

Powers

• forge wonders from metal
• raise the four winds at the forge

Epithets

• seppo Ilmollini

Relations

• companion: Väinämöinen the Eternal Sage
• equated with: Ilmarinen

Sources

• Kalevala, ed. Lönnrot, 1849
• Ilmarinen, Wikipedia
• Uno Holmberg, Finno-Ugric and Siberian Mythology (The Mythology of All Races IV), Boston, 1927