entity_id,source_id,evidence_type,source_note
ENT_FINN_AHTI,SRC_KALEVALA,direct attestation,Kalevala Runo 42-49: Ahti/Ahto and his wife Vellamo in the underwater realm Ahtola; the sea journey sequence; invocations of Ahti by fishermen. Also Runo 6 (Väinämöinen falls into Ahti's sea).
ENT_FINN_ILMARINEN,SRC_KALEVALA,primary text attestation,"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."
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_KALMA,SRC_KALEVALA,primary text attestation,"Personification of death and the stench of decay, associated with graves and the rotting corpse in Finnic tradition."
ENT_FINN_KULLERVO,SRC_KALEVALA,primary text attestation,The doomed orphan-slave of the Kalevala whose vengeance and unwitting incest end in his suicide upon his own sword.
ENT_FINN_LEMMINKAINEN,SRC_KALEVALA,primary text attestation,"A reckless, amorous warrior-shaman of the Kalevala who is slain and dismembered at the river of Tuonela and revived by his mother."
ENT_FINN_LOUHI,SRC_KALEVALA,direct attestation,"Kalevala Runos 5-8 (Väinämöinen arrives in Pohjola and negotiates the Sampo bride-price), 10-11 (Ilmarinen forges the Sampo for Louhi), 30-38 (the heroes steal the Sampo; Louhi pursues), 42-49 (Louhi steals sun and moon; Ukko restores them). The most plot-active deity in the Kalevala after Väinämöinen."
ENT_FINN_MIELIKKI,SRC_KALEVALA,direct attestation,"Kalevala Runo 14:213 ff.: extended invocation to Mielikki — ""O Mielikki, forest's mistress, fair-faced mistress of the woodland"" — asking her to open her forest storehouse of game. Also Runo 46 (bear-hunt invocations)."
ENT_FINN_NYYRIKKI,SRC_KALEVALA,primary text attestation,"Forest god, son of Tapio, who guides hunters and marks the paths of game through the woods."
ENT_FINN_PANTHEON,SRC_KALEVALA,primary text attestation,"Collective grouping of the gods, heroes, and otherworld powers of Finnic tradition as preserved in the Kalevala and Agricola's 1551 deity list."
ENT_FINN_PELLERVO,SRC_KALEVALA,primary text attestation,"Sampsa Pellervoinen, the sower-spirit of the Kalevala who scatters seed and makes the trees and crops grow over the land."
ENT_FINN_POHJOLA,SRC_KALEVALA,primary text attestation,"The dark northern otherworld of the Kalevala, ruled by Louhi, where the Sampo was forged and hidden inside a copper mountain."
ENT_FINN_SURMA,SRC_KALEVALA,primary text attestation,"Personification of violent or sudden death, a monstrous gatekeeping power associated with the threshold of Tuonela."
ENT_FINN_TAPIO,SRC_KALEVALA,direct attestation,"Kalevala Runos 14, 32, 46: invocations to Tapio for successful hunting; description of the forest realm Tapiola; Tapio as the lord whose permission hunters must seek before entering the forest."
ENT_FINN_TELLERVO,SRC_KALEVALA,primary text attestation,"Maiden of the forest, daughter of Tapio, who herds and protects the cattle and game of the woodland."
ENT_FINN_TUONELA,SRC_KALEVALA,primary text attestation,"The land of the dead in Finnic cosmology, ruled by Tuoni and Tuonetar and separated from the living by the dark river of Tuoni."
ENT_FINN_TUONETAR,SRC_KALEVALA,primary text attestation,"Queen of the dead and consort of Tuoni, mistress of the household of Tuonela who serves the dead the drink of the underworld."
ENT_FINN_TUONI,SRC_KALEVALA,primary text attestation,"Lord of the dead who rules Tuonela, the dark land of the dead reached across the river of Tuoni."
ENT_FINN_UKKO,SRC_KALEVALA,direct attestation,"Kalevala Runo 2:323-328: ""Ukko, thou of gods the highest""; Runo 47: Ukko is called to restore the stolen sun and moon; pervasive invocations throughout as the highest divine authority."
ENT_FINN_VAINAMOINEN,SRC_KALEVALA,direct attestation,"Central figure of the Kalevala across Runos 1-3, 5-11, 16-17, 26-30, 42-50. His birth from Ilmatar (Runo 1-3), contest with Joukahainen (Runo 3), descent to Tuonela (Runo 16), creation of the kantele (Runo 40-41), and departure at the end (Runo 50) are core mythological events."
ENT_FINN_VELLAMO,SRC_KALEVALA,primary text attestation,"Goddess of the sea and waters, wife of Ahti, who keeps the fish and is invoked by fishermen in the Kalevala."