entities: ENT_FINN_UKKO

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entity_id canonical_name greek_name tradition entity_type category primary_domains tags cult_scope primary_period evidence_confidence review_status inclusion_basis earth_association_score chthonic_flag serpent_flag short_note entity_class
ENT_FINN_UKKO Ukko   Finnish thunder god / sky father Thunder Deity thunder; rain; sky; crops; weather; harvest; lightning       A           Supreme deity and thunder god of the Finnish pantheon; name means "old man" (also cf. Estonian Uku, Sami Hovrengaellies). The most important deity in Finnish folk religion. Mikael Agricola's 1551 Psalter is the earliest written attestation: Agricola lists Ukko as the first of the Häme (Tavastian) deities: "Ukko ruled weather and the air / and gave rain when summer was dry." The Kalevala invokes Ukko repeatedly as the highest divine authority — Runo 2:323-328 calls on him explicitly: "Ukko, thou of gods the highest" (Bosley trans.). He gives rain, controls storms, and governs the harvest. His wife is Akka or Rauni (the Rowan tree deity, possibly a loanword). Ukko is cognate with the Baltic thunder deity Perkūnas and the broader Indo-European thunder deity pattern (Thor/Perun/Zeus/Indra). Pentikäinen (1999) pp. 121-140. deity

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