Entity Periods

Period assignments linking entities to the historical periods when they are attested. An entity may span multiple periods. All Greek entities are assigned; Egyptian tradition is fully covered; total coverage exceeds 70%.

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{'description': 'high / medium / low — certainty of the period assignment'}
rationale
{'description': 'Justification with source citations'}

24 rows where period_id = "PER_FINN_TRADITIONAL"

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ENT_FINN_AHTI,PER_FINN_TRADITIONAL Ahti ENT_FINN_AHTI Finnish Traditional / Pre-Christian PER_FINN_TRADITIONAL high Named in Agricola's 1551 deity list as the deity of fish and water; the water-deity cult is attested across Finnish and Estonian folk practice as pre-Christian. SRC_AGRICOLA_PRIMER reviewed
ENT_FINN_HIISI,PER_FINN_TRADITIONAL Hiisi ENT_FINN_HIISI Finnish Traditional / Pre-Christian PER_FINN_TRADITIONAL high A malevolent forest demon (and the dangerous sacred grove it haunts), named in Agricola's deity list and the Kalevala as a source of evil and disease. SRC_AGRICOLA_PRIMER reviewed
ENT_FINN_ILMARINEN,PER_FINN_TRADITIONAL Ilmarinen ENT_FINN_ILMARINEN Finnish Traditional / Pre-Christian PER_FINN_TRADITIONAL high The eternal smith of the Kalevala who hammered out the dome of the sky and forged the Sampo, the magical mill of plenty, for Louhi of Pohjola. SRC_KALEVALA reviewed
ENT_FINN_ILMATAR,PER_FINN_TRADITIONAL Ilmatar ENT_FINN_ILMATAR Finnish Traditional / Pre-Christian PER_FINN_TRADITIONAL high The Ilmatar/world-egg cosmogony in Kalevala Runo 1 reflects pre-Christian Finno-Ugric cosmogonic tradition; close parallels in Estonian (Vanemuine) and Votic cosmogonies confirm antiquity. SRC_KALEVALA reviewed
ENT_FINN_KALMA,PER_FINN_TRADITIONAL Kalma ENT_FINN_KALMA Finnish Traditional / Pre-Christian PER_FINN_TRADITIONAL high Personification of death and the stench of decay, associated with graves and the rotting corpse in Finnic tradition. SRC_KALEVALA reviewed
ENT_FINN_KULLERVO,PER_FINN_TRADITIONAL Kullervo ENT_FINN_KULLERVO Finnish Traditional / Pre-Christian PER_FINN_TRADITIONAL high The doomed orphan-slave of the Kalevala whose vengeance and unwitting incest end in his suicide upon his own sword. SRC_KALEVALA reviewed
ENT_FINN_LEMMINKAINEN,PER_FINN_TRADITIONAL Lemminkäinen ENT_FINN_LEMMINKAINEN Finnish Traditional / Pre-Christian PER_FINN_TRADITIONAL high A reckless, amorous warrior-shaman of the Kalevala who is slain and dismembered at the river of Tuonela and revived by his mother. SRC_KALEVALA reviewed
ENT_FINN_LOUHI,PER_FINN_TRADITIONAL Louhi ENT_FINN_LOUHI Finnish Traditional / Pre-Christian PER_FINN_TRADITIONAL high The Pohjola mytheme and the Louhi figure are attested across the Kalevala runo-song tradition; Pentikäinen (1999) places the Pohjola narrative complex in the pre-Christian Finnish cosmological worldview. SRC_KALEVALA reviewed
ENT_FINN_MIELIKKI,PER_FINN_TRADITIONAL Mielikki ENT_FINN_MIELIKKI Finnish Traditional / Pre-Christian PER_FINN_TRADITIONAL high Invoked in the Kalevala bear-hunt runos (Runo 14, 46) which preserve pre-Christian hunting ritual material; the bear cult is one of the best-attested pre-Christian religious practices in Finno-Ugric archaeology. SRC_KALEVALA reviewed
ENT_FINN_NYYRIKKI,PER_FINN_TRADITIONAL Nyyrikki ENT_FINN_NYYRIKKI Finnish Traditional / Pre-Christian PER_FINN_TRADITIONAL high Forest god, son of Tapio, who guides hunters and marks the paths of game through the woods. SRC_KALEVALA reviewed
ENT_FINN_PANTHEON,PER_FINN_TRADITIONAL The Finnish/Kalevala Pantheon ENT_FINN_PANTHEON Finnish Traditional / Pre-Christian PER_FINN_TRADITIONAL high Collective grouping of the gods, heroes, and otherworld powers of Finnic tradition as preserved in the Kalevala and Agricola's 1551 deity list. SRC_KALEVALA reviewed
ENT_FINN_PEKKO,PER_FINN_TRADITIONAL Pellon Pekko (Pekko) ENT_FINN_PEKKO Finnish Traditional / Pre-Christian PER_FINN_TRADITIONAL high God of barley and the fields named in Agricola's list (Pellon Pekko), invoked for the growth of grain and the making of beer. SRC_AGRICOLA_PRIMER reviewed
ENT_FINN_PELLERVO,PER_FINN_TRADITIONAL Pellervo (Sampsa) ENT_FINN_PELLERVO Finnish Traditional / Pre-Christian PER_FINN_TRADITIONAL high Sampsa Pellervoinen, the sower-spirit of the Kalevala who scatters seed and makes the trees and crops grow over the land. SRC_KALEVALA reviewed
ENT_FINN_POHJOLA,PER_FINN_TRADITIONAL Pohjola ENT_FINN_POHJOLA Finnish Traditional / Pre-Christian PER_FINN_TRADITIONAL high The dark northern otherworld of the Kalevala, ruled by Louhi, where the Sampo was forged and hidden inside a copper mountain. SRC_KALEVALA reviewed
ENT_FINN_RAUNI,PER_FINN_TRADITIONAL Rauni ENT_FINN_RAUNI Finnish Traditional / Pre-Christian PER_FINN_TRADITIONAL high An obscure figure from Agricola's list traditionally read as the consort of the thunder-god Ukko, associated with fertility and the harvest. SRC_AGRICOLA_PRIMER reviewed
ENT_FINN_SURMA,PER_FINN_TRADITIONAL Surma ENT_FINN_SURMA Finnish Traditional / Pre-Christian PER_FINN_TRADITIONAL high Personification of violent or sudden death, a monstrous gatekeeping power associated with the threshold of Tuonela. SRC_KALEVALA reviewed
ENT_FINN_TAPIO,PER_FINN_TRADITIONAL Tapio ENT_FINN_TAPIO Finnish Traditional / Pre-Christian PER_FINN_TRADITIONAL high Named in Agricola's 1551 deity list; the forest-deity cult is attested across Karelian and Finnish hunter communities as a pre-Christian practice persisting through Christianization. SRC_AGRICOLA_PRIMER reviewed
ENT_FINN_TELLERVO,PER_FINN_TRADITIONAL Tellervo ENT_FINN_TELLERVO Finnish Traditional / Pre-Christian PER_FINN_TRADITIONAL high Maiden of the forest, daughter of Tapio, who herds and protects the cattle and game of the woodland. SRC_KALEVALA reviewed
ENT_FINN_TUONELA,PER_FINN_TRADITIONAL Tuonela ENT_FINN_TUONELA Finnish Traditional / Pre-Christian PER_FINN_TRADITIONAL high The land of the dead in Finnic cosmology, ruled by Tuoni and Tuonetar and separated from the living by the dark river of Tuoni. SRC_KALEVALA reviewed
ENT_FINN_TUONETAR,PER_FINN_TRADITIONAL Tuonetar ENT_FINN_TUONETAR Finnish Traditional / Pre-Christian PER_FINN_TRADITIONAL high Queen of the dead and consort of Tuoni, mistress of the household of Tuonela who serves the dead the drink of the underworld. SRC_KALEVALA reviewed
ENT_FINN_TUONI,PER_FINN_TRADITIONAL Tuoni ENT_FINN_TUONI Finnish Traditional / Pre-Christian PER_FINN_TRADITIONAL high Lord of the dead who rules Tuonela, the dark land of the dead reached across the river of Tuoni. SRC_KALEVALA reviewed
ENT_FINN_UKKO,PER_FINN_TRADITIONAL Ukko ENT_FINN_UKKO Finnish Traditional / Pre-Christian PER_FINN_TRADITIONAL high Named in Agricola's 1551 deity list (earliest written source) as the primary sky-thunder deity of the Häme; pervasively invoked in the Kalevala oral tradition. Pre-Christian attestation confirmed by Agricola. SRC_AGRICOLA_PRIMER reviewed
ENT_FINN_VAINAMOINEN,PER_FINN_TRADITIONAL Väinämöinen ENT_FINN_VAINAMOINEN Finnish Traditional / Pre-Christian PER_FINN_TRADITIONAL high Central figure of the Kalevala oral runo-song tradition preserved from the pre-Christian Finnish period; Pentikäinen (1999) traces the shaman-bard archetype to Iron Age Finnish culture. SRC_KALEVALA reviewed
ENT_FINN_VELLAMO,PER_FINN_TRADITIONAL Vellamo ENT_FINN_VELLAMO Finnish Traditional / Pre-Christian PER_FINN_TRADITIONAL high Goddess of the sea and waters, wife of Ahti, who keeps the fish and is invoked by fishermen in the Kalevala. SRC_KALEVALA reviewed

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CREATE TABLE "entity_periods" (
   [entity_id] TEXT REFERENCES [entities]([entity_id]),
   [period_id] TEXT REFERENCES [periods]([period_id]),
   [confidence] TEXT,
   [rationale] TEXT,
   [source_id] TEXT,
   [review_status] TEXT,
   PRIMARY KEY ([entity_id], [period_id])
);
CREATE INDEX [idx_entity_periods_period_id]
    ON [entity_periods] ([period_id]);
CREATE INDEX [idx_entity_periods_entity_id]
    ON [entity_periods] ([entity_id]);