entity_id,source_id,evidence_type,source_note
ENT_FINN_ILMATAR,SRC_KALEVALA,direct attestation,Kalevala Runo 1 (the world-creation cosmogony): Ilmatar descends from the air to the primordial sea; the duck lays eggs on her knee; the eggs break and form the world from their fragments; Ilmatar shapes the earth. She carries Väinämöinen for 700 years (Runos 1-3).
ENT_FINN_ILMATAR,SRC_PENTIKÄINEN_KALEVALA,scholarly attestation,Pentikäinen (1999) pp. 55-80: the cosmic egg creation myth and its Uralic parallels; Ilmatar as world-mother; the relationship to Estonian and Votic cosmogonic traditions; the motif of the virgin cosmic deity.