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 finnish · folkIlmarinen the smith (Karelian form Ilmollini/Ilmoillini)SKVR (Suomen Kansan Vanhat Runot), Viena Karelian runo-corpus (primary)

Relations

• companion: Väinämöinen the Eternal SageReciprocal of karelian_vainamoinen.companion — Sage and smith voyage together in the Karelian Sampo-raid runos; in the courtship songs they also appear as rival suitors of the Pohjola maiden.Suomen Kansan Vanhat Runot I (Viena Karelian Sampo-cycle runos, incl. Arhippa Perttunen, 1834) (primary)
• equated with: IlmarinenReciprocal of finnish_ilmarinen.equated-with — Same Sampo-cycle smith; Viena Karelian singers supplied the core texts behind the Finnish national figure. Name < Finnic ilma 'air, sky', a trace of an older sky-smith (Harva).Suomen Kansan Vanhat Runot (SKVR) I, Viena Karelian Sampo-cycle runos (primary); A.-L. Siikala, Itämerensuomalaisten mytologia (2012) (secondary)

Sources

• Ilmarinen is the eternal/primal smith of Karelian runo-song and the Kalevala, said to have forged the dome of heaven and the magic mill Sampo.: Kalevala, ed. Lönnrot, 1849 (primary); Ilmarinen, Wikipedia (tertiary)
• His name belongs to the same root as Udmurt Inmar and the air/sky word (ilma), marking an ancient sky-/weather-smith figure across Finnic and Permic traditions.: Uno Holmberg, Finno-Ugric and Siberian Mythology (The Mythology of All Races IV), Boston, 1927 (secondary)